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Topic: Leopard

8-yr-old girl dies after leopard mauling in MP’s Barwani district

The girl was in a farm where her mother and other labourers were working, when a leopard pounced on her. The big cat held the child by the neck and dragged her some distance.

Proof that elusive wild cats still prowl high Himalayas—Pallas’ Cat photographed 1st time in Arunachal

WWF & Arunachal Forest Department study also found common leopard at highest ever 4,600 m; clouded leopards, marbled cats and Himalayan wood owl at unusually high altitudes. 

With a leopard on the move in east Delhi, forest officials scout the area to consider rewilding options

A camera trap set by a wildlife photographer captured the leopard near Jagatpur village by Yamuna Biodiversity Park. Officials are assessing if it’s local or just passing through.

Growing at 1.08% annually, India’s leopard population estimated at 13,874, says report

The report found that population growth was fueled by creation of new protected areas, as well as the reduction of habitat loss caused by human activities.

Forest department deploys drones to locate elusive leopard in Delhi’s Neb Sarai

The leopard was spotted near a farmhouse in the Neb Sarai area on the border of Delhi and Haryana Friday. It has not been seen since then.

Not just laddus at Tirumala, devotees walking to shrine get lathis to scare off wild animals

10,000 lathis procured for pilgrims who walk to shrine. This is after increasing leopard sightings & two attacks on children on 11 km footpath passing through hilly, jungle terrain.

Orphaned and exposed, why these Indian leopard cubs can’t return to the wild

Orphan leopards can seldom be released in the wild, but there is no space for them in zoos and rescue centres.

Covid spilling over to free-ranging animals? Dead leopard cub had Delta, didn’t die of it

Case was detected at a time when infection levels had dropped significantly in humans, says 12 January report by scientists from Indian Veterinary Research Institute.

A leopard walked into Delhi’s Yamuna Park. Then an AAP minister illegally took it out

In ‘Wild and Wilful’, Neha Sinha writes that the re-wilding of the barren Yamuna Biodiversity Park was so successful that an apex predator walked in — only to be removed for ‘its own safety’.

Why Indian leopards switched from ‘healthy salad’ to ‘risky junk’

In ‘Leopard Diaries’, Sanjay Gubbi writes that unlike the tiger, the leopard is not a choosy eater — but what it eats usually is fast running out where it lives in India.

On Camera

RJD confidence in EBCs dips. Sticks to Yadav core

RJD’s candidates from EBCs have declined from 13.13 per cent to 11.19 per cent. This could be because the party saw the lowest strike rate among EBC candidates in the 2020 Bihar Assembly polls.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.