Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 21:00
Villagers of Dhar hunted down a man-eating leopard after a long operation of two months in Nankhari region in inner Shimla, 140 km from here, the capital of the state.
“There were two man-eating leopards in this Bahali forest range of Rampur Tehsil. I succeeded killing younger one and the other escaped. With the cooperation of the forest department this operation is half-complete. But the entire region in still living under fear of the other man-eater,” man-eating leopard killer, Kailash Thakur told Punjab Newsline.
The man-eating leopards had killed one 9-year-old child near Nankhari in the second week of January this year. Since then the entire region was living under the terror of these big cats.
“We had permission to kill one man-eating leopard and with the help of the local villagers we hunted it down. The other big cat escaped and we have to plan to capture or kill it to protect locals from the attacks of this wild animal, said Dhuni Chand, Forest Range Officer, Rampur.
Man- animal conflict has become a very serious issue in Himachal Pradesh. In the last three years 22 people have been killed in the wildlife attacks. In most of these deaths killers were leopards. Wild animals had made 1242 attacks on human in the state in the last three years and 110 suffered serious injuries..
Monkey menace is the biggest problem in the state, which has become now a political issue. Each year more than four lakh monkeys destroy framers’ crop worth Rs 500 crore and many farmers are living their field barren fearing these simians.
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