Found only in 12 countries across the globe, that too at high levels, forest officials earlier this week found the estranged snow leopard aged 25 months from the Southern Plains of Nepal.
Expressing concern over the incidents of monkeys attacking children in various areas of Dehradun, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami directed Principal Secretary Forest RK Sudhanshu to work on an effective action plan to stop such incidents.
The leopard who allegedly killed two people and injured four in the past 15 days in Nilgiri district's Pandalur area has been captured, forest officials said.
Two people were killed and four were injured in the past 15 days in Bandalur Nilgiri district in a leopard attack and the road was blocked at Pandalur for 11 hours to catch the leopard in Gudalur constituency on Saturday night.
"We got a call around 4 am that a leopard has entered a house in Narsinghpur. We gave him two tranquilizer shots but it didn't work, so we caught him in a cage instead. There are around 100 leopards in the Aravallis. No casualties have been reported," the NGO head told ANI.
A young male leopard that strayed into Chikali, PCMC (Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation) was successfully rescued in a joint operation by Pune forest department and RESQ CT Wildlife Rescue Unit, PCMC Fire Department and PCMC Police Department.
The incident occurred in Khurda village, Manpur in the district. The villagers saw the leopard in the well on Tuesday morning and then they informed the forest department about the matter.