India has 13,874 leopards, with the heart of the country — Madhya Pradesh — having the largest number of its third-biggest felid, a landmark report released by the Centre on February 29, 2024 showed. The pan-India population of the Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) was estimated at 13,874 (Range: 12,616–15,132) …
Divya Gandhi BANGALORE: Junnar in Maharashtra was like any other prosperous agricultural taluk, where improved irrigation helped farmers switch to cash crops. Cattle, goats and fowl supplemented their income. But in 2001, a deadly phenomenon struck the region almost overnight: leopards, known to prey often on cattle, dogs and pigs …
Dec. 15: People living in the border villages of AP-Tamil Nadu in Kuppam mandal have been living with fear following movement of leopards close to their habitations from the nearby forest since last three weeks. Moreover, forest range officer, Mr Mogileswar Rao, also confirmed about leopards prowling in the region. …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: With the killing of the leopard landing into controversy, forest department officials are in a spot over declaring the animal a man-eater. Environmentalists are raising doubts over forest officials
Recent research on leopard behaviour shows capturing the problem animals and releasing them elsewhere only shifts the locale of the people-animal conflict. At first glance Akole taluka in Ahmednagar district seems like any other taluka in western Maharashtra’s sugarcane belt. It seems unlikely, even unexpected, yet in Akole people, their …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: Photographs of royalty posing with a gun in hand and a dead leopard at his feet belonged to the black-and-white era of the Raj. Hunting has been banned for nearly half a century in India. But a similar scene was played out near a hamlet …
Recent research on leopard behaviour shows capturing the problem animals and releasing them elsewhere only shifts the locale of the people-animal conflict. At first glance Akole taluka in Ahmednagar district seems like any other taluka in western Maharashtra’s sugarcane belt. It has densely populated and chaotic settlements, virtually no forest …
Hyderabad, Dec. 7: A leopard which strayed into the Utupally village in the city outskirts at Parigi on Monday was trapped by the forest officials after tranquillising it. Two people, a police constable and an assistant conservator of forests, who were holding the nets to capture the wild cat sustained …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: It is not known whether this was to take revenge on a man-eating leopard on prowl in Vadpada in Tapi district. Some villagers could not stop themselves from eating the bait of the leopard on Saturday while living under the fear of becoming a piece …
Large carnivore conservation is akin to a multi-billion dollar riddle. Scores of researchers, activists, bureaucrats, politicians, livestock herders, and hunters each hold a clue to the solution, but cannot seem to be able to agree on how to bring it together. The large carnivores themselves are far from cooperative be …
How is it possible for large carnivorous cats to live with humans in a rural area? Asking this big question are Vidya Athreya, a wildlife biologist and Sunetro Ghosal, a social scientist.
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: Forest officials will get special protective gears so as to save themselves from the attacks of man-eating leopard on them. At least four persons have lost their lives in the past few weeks in leopard attacks in Mandvi taluka of Surat district. This has forced …
The tigers at the Bannerghatta Biological Park suffering from salmonella infection, after being fed with contaminated meat, have recovered and are now said to be out of danger. According to Forest officials, the 16 big cats including - Annu, Gowri and her three cubs, Yashoda and her two cubs, Arya, …
A female spotted deer of Herbivore Safari died at the Bannerghatta Biological Park here on Wednesday, while the condition of a leopard is said to be critical. A post-mortem conducted on the deer revealed that the cause of death is chronic hepatitis and adhesion of visceral organs. The post-mortem was …
Alipurduar, Oct. 4: Leopards will be counted for the first time in the Buxa Tiger Reserve through the DNA analysis of their scat in December. The census to be flagged off by Union environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh in the BTR on December 5 comes after an NGO reported …
Yet another leopard was trapped at the Cancanamodi area of Cuncolim in the wee hours of Wednesday. This is the second leopard trapped by the forest officials after locals sighted movements of wild cats in the locality. Locals had complained that the leopards, who were on the prowl in the …
SEVERAL people living in Patyachapaani, a tribal hamlet inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in suburban Mumbai, have been mauled by leopards in recent years. But they do not want to shift and are protesting the forest department's plan to relocate them in the forest fringe. About three months ago, …
Kurnool, Sept. 13: In the wake of wild animal attacks on cattle and humans, the forest department has concentrated on the leopard population to drive them back into the forests. Following a leopard attack on pilgrims trekking the Tirumala hillock, forest officials kept surveillance on their movements. They came to …
