Leopard rescued from Diu, sent back to Gujarat

The big cat took the bait and fell into the trap on Saturday morning, forest officials said.

By: Express News Service | Rajkot | Published:June 19, 2016 7:21 pm

The big cat took the bait and fell into the trap on Saturday morning, forest officials said. (Source: File photo) After trailing it for around two months, forest officers of union territory Diu finally managed to rescue a leopard from Malala village on the island on Saturday and sent it back to mainland Gujarat.
The rescue teams of Diu forest department and Sasan wildlife division in Gir forest of mainland Gujarat caught the leopard by placing a trap cage in a coconut orchard in Malala village near the Diu city. The big cat took the bait and fell into the trap on Saturday morning, forest officials said.
“Indirect evidence like pug-marks suggested that the leopard used to come to Diu city at night and go back to villages during the day. Based on this, we identified its corridor and a rescue team from Sasan placed a cage in the coconut orchard in Malala. The previous night, its pugmarks were observed near the cage but it didn’t take the bait. However, the rescuers became successful on Saturday,” range forest officer (RFO) of Diu, Kailash Gakewad said on Sunday.

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