Mysore/Mysuru: After the unfortunate incident involving a leopard attack resulting in the death of a 7-year-old girl in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar, Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre announced a compensation of Rs. 15 lakh and a monthly pension of Rs. 4,000 for the victim’s family. The incident took place on June 26 in Kaggaligundi Tribal Hamlet,…
Man arrested for poisoning leopard
June 23, 2023The accused had laced the carcass of his pet dog with poison to kill the leopard which had killed his pet Gundlupet: Forest Department personnel have arrested a man on charges of poisoning a four-year-old female leopard. The accused had laced the carcass of his pet dog with poison with the ulterior motive to kill…
Leopard sighted in T. Narasipur village after a five-month gap
June 15, 2023Entry ban at Vadagal Ranganathaswamy Temple in B. Bettahalli from 5.30 pm to 9 am Mysore/Mysuru: Five months after thousands of villagers of T. Narasipur taluk heaved a sigh of relief as foresters trapped the elusive leopard which was responsible for recurring attacks where a couple of young individuals were killed in the region, there…
Leopard caught in poachers’ net rescued at H.D. Kote taluk
May 13, 2023Hunters suspected to have cast the net to poach wild boar; big cat struggles foar eight hours till Forest Officials visit the spot Mysore/Mysuru: A leopard caught in a net, suspected to have been laid to trap wild boar at Alanahalli in Hampapura hobli, H.D. Kote taluk, was rescued by Forest Department personnel yesterday. The…
Leopard trapped in T. Narasipur shifted to Bannerghatta
April 19, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A leopard, which was trapped in a cage at an agricultural field in Rangasamudra village of T. Narasipur taluk, has been shifted to Bannerghatta Biological Park in Bengaluru. Villagers of Rangasamudra, who had spotted the leopard in the agricultural field, had lodged a complaint to the Forest Department officials. The T. Narasipur Leopard Task…
Leopard enters residential area in city; triggers panic
March 15, 2023Big cat sniffing around a house compound at Vijayanagar Fourth Stage caught on camera Mysore/Mysuru: After a video of lions roaming on Gujarat streets went viral, a similar footage from Mysuru is doing the rounds on social media which shows a leopard sniffing around a compound of a house in Vijayanagar 4th Stage in the…
Leopard scare at Vijayanagar 4th Stage
February 26, 2023CCTV cameras capture leopard roaming on roads Mysore/Mysuru: Residents of Amulyanagar in Vijayanagar 4th Stage are a scared lot as CCTV cameras installed in a few houses have captured a leopard roaming freely on the roads since three to four days. There are two schools in the locality and the parents are now scared to…
Daredevil act by Kodagu-born Vet saves leopard in Mangaluru
February 21, 2023She sits inside a cage, goes down 25-feet deep well to bring back the feline after darting Mysore/Mysuru: One of the most challenging and dramatic animal rescue missions has been accomplished by a Kodagu-born veterinarian Dr. Pandikanda Meghana Pemmaiah, now settled in Mangaluru. She recently saved a leopard that had fallen inside a 25-feet deep…
Leopard trapped at Marase
February 20, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A leopard, which had created panic by killing livestock, has been trapped in the cage placed by the Forest Department at Marase village in the taluk yesterday. Following complaint by villagers that a leopard was killing their livestock, the Forest Department staff had placed a cage in the farm on Thursday and the leopard,…
65 leopards captured in last three years in Mysuru: DCF
February 10, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: In the last three years, 65 leopards have been captured/rescued in Mysuru district, including three in January 2023. “We have implanted a microchip on the leopards that were caught last month after making a ‘V’ shape cut on its ear tip and have released them back into the wild. We are tracking their movements…
Recent Comments