Pune: Forest dept rescues two leopard cubs from sugarcane farms, reunites them with mothers

Pune | Thursday | 18th April, 2019

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AdvertisingCamera trap footage installed by the Wildlife SOS team captured the mother leopard slowly approaching the cub. Range Forest Officer Ajit Sajane then reached out to the Wildlife SOS team operating out of the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Center in Junnar. AdvertisingEarlier this week, sugarcane farmers from Kale village in Karad taluka of Satara district stumbled upon a leopard cub while harvesting their crop. They immediately alerted the forest department, who sought to reunite the young leopard with its mother. The forest department, along with an NGO, rescued two leopard cubs and reunited them with their mothers after they were found in sugarcane farms — a somewhat common occurrence during harvest season in the state..