Forest officers took custody of two leopard cubs from Kolagere village in Mandya district hours after they have been rescued by a gaggle of kids, who took them to the village, officers mentioned on Thursday.
Officers mentioned the group of kids on Wednesday rescued two leopard cubs trapped beneath a boulder close to agricultural land within the Kolagere village within the Mandya district. The youths — Shivamurthy, Keerthi Kumar and their pals — seen that a number of cubs have been trapped beneath the boulder, they added.
Nonetheless, the act of kindness was an offence underneath Wildlife Safety Act 1972when they determined to take the cubs to their village as a substitute of releasing them, officers mentioned.
Hours after the incident, forest officers later took custody of the 2 leopard cubs from one of many homes the place the youth had saved the cubs. Based on the forest division, after the cubs have been taken to the village, lots of of villagers thronged to see the cubs.
As quickly because the information reached the forest division, regional forest officer N Gaviyappa and his staff rushed to identify and rescued the cubs.
‘’Quickly after listening to the information, we rushed to identify and rescued each cubs. Since Wednesday afternoon, we now have been making an attempt to unite cubs with their mom,‘’ RFO N Gaviyappa mentioned.
“We now have positioned a cage within the sugarcane area with cubs in case the mom comes looking for cubs,” he added.
“In an analogous methodology, forest officers united two cubs with their mom at Nanjanagudu months again, so we’re additionally making an attempt the identical methodology. The cubs are round two months previous. Leopards take shelter in sugarcane fields for copy. The leopard might have attacked people whereas rescuing cubs, however the villagers took the cubs whereas the mom was away searching for meals. We are going to look ahead to some extra time to unite with the mom and ship her to a rescue centre for elevating cubs if we fail to seek out the mom,” Gayivappa mentioned, including that no case has been registered towards the villagers.
In the meantime, in one other incident, forest officers caught a leopard in Mudanahalli farmhouse in Okay R Pete taluk in Mandya on Thursday.
Officers mentioned the leopard entered the home of farmer Ninge Gowda and killed a goat. The leopard additionally attacked Ninge Gowda and his spouse Prabhavathi, who’re present process therapy within the hospital.
“They locked the leopard inside the home and knowledgeable forest officers,” officers added.