Nilgai injured while straying into village

  • | Friday | 4th January, 2019

The forest officials immediately rushed to the spot and called RAWW for their assistance in the rescue. Thane: An injured sub-adult female Nilgai or blue bull that stumbled into the human habitat in Shahapur's Lahe village, was rescued by the wildlife rescuers from the NGO Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare (RAWW) and the forest department on Tuesday. “The locals saw the Nilgai in the morning but thought it was a cow. It was then that they realised that it was a wild animal and called the officials,” said Pawan Sharma, Thane's honorary wildlife warden and founder of RAWW. Even though the Nilgai is a sub-adult, she is quite large and we had to ensure that she did not panic and run towards the highway or the barbed wire fencing nearby.

Thane: An injured sub-adult female Nilgai or blue bull that stumbled into the human habitat in Shahapur's Lahe village, was rescued by the wildlife rescuers from the NGO Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare (RAWW) and the forest department on Tuesday. Around noon, officials from the forest department received a call from some locals about the animal that was limping about near the defunct petrol pump in the area. The forest officials immediately rushed to the spot and called RAWW for their assistance in the rescue. “The locals saw the Nilgai in the morning but thought it was a cow. As human activity increased later around noon, the animal began getting aggressiveand running about. It was then that they realised that it was a wild animal and called the officials,” said Pawan Sharma, Thane's honorary wildlife warden and founder of RAWW. As soon as the team of 15 forest officials and NGO volunteers got there, they first began strategically guiding the Nilgai, which is protected by the schedule-IV of the Wildlife Protection Act, in a secluded part of the defunct petrol pump in the area. “She was traumatized as well as physically injured. The local vet gave her some first aid, after which we strategically guided her into a cage and took her to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) for further treatment. It took us about four hours to get the wild herbivore carefully back without adding to the trauma she was facing because of the new surroundings and high human activity,” added Pawar. “Even though the Nilgai is a sub-adult, she is quite large and we had to ensure that she did not panic and run towards the highway or the barbed wire fencing nearby,” he said. Even though the Nilgai is a sub-adult, she is quite large and we had to ensure that she did not panic and run towards the highway or the barbed wire fencing nearby. We were divided in groups of two and took our time so that she was not alarmed

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