Forest officials on April 29 captured a leopard which had strayed into Aliganj village from the nearby Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh.
According to Forest officials, the leopard which had taken shelter in a cowshed was captured with the help of a veterinary doctor.
MANISH SINGH, deputy director, Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, “Today, at around 8 o’clock in the morning, we got information that a leopard had entered the cattle shed in village Aliganj under Nuriya police station, and when we sent our staff to investigate the information, as we came to know that it was a leopard, we cordoned off the area so that there was no loss of life. Then, we caught the leopard with the help of a veterinary doctor. The leopard is healthy and is an eight to nine year-old male.”
The Pilibhit Tiger reserve is spread over the three districts of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri and Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh. It covers an area of more than 700 square km and is home to a variety of wild animals including leopards and tigers.
