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Assessing spatio-temporal
patterns of human-leopard interactions based on media reports in northwestern
India
Kaushal Chauhan 1,
Arjun Srivathsa 2 & Vidya Athreya 3
1 Forest Research Institute
(Deemed) to be University, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education,
P. O. IPE, Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248195, India.
2 School of Natural Resources and
Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
2 Department of Wildlife Ecology
and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
2,3 Wildlife Conservation
Society–India, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Kodigehalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560097,
India.
1 kumarkoshal007@gmail.com
(corresponding author), 2 asrivathsa@wcsindia.org, 3 avidya@wcsindia.org
Editor: Mewa Singh, University of Mysore,
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Citation: Chauhan, K., A. Srivathsa &
V . Athreya (2021). Assessing
spatio-temporal patterns of human-leopard interactions based on media reports
in northwestern India. Journal of
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Author details: Kaushal Chauhan has interests in human-large
carnivore interactions, population ecology and conservation biology with a
focus on community-based studies. He currently works on tigers and other
species in Central India’s Satpura-Melghat Tiger reserve corridor. Arjun
Srivathsa is interested in large carnivores, with a focus on dholes. His
research work deals with population ecology, human–wildlife interactions and
conservation biology of wild canids in India.
Vidya Athreya’s research
has focused on understanding the ecology of large carnivores when they reside
in human-use landscapes, and translating her findings into informed management
actions.
Author contributions: VA and KC conceived the idea,
KC compiled the data, all authors critically evaluated the data, KC
and AS performed the analyses. All authors contributed towards writing
the manuscript.
Acknowledgements: We acknowledge the support
provided by Forest Research Institute (Deemed) to be University, Dehradun and
Wildlife Conservation Society–India in conducting this study as part of a
Master’s dissertation work (KC). We thank S. Sharma for providing analytical
support, and I. Majgaonkar and D. Khandal for their guidance. We would also
like to thank M. Negi, Scientist-F, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun for
providing academic support for the study.
Abstract: Large carnivores in human-use areas
make for sensational print media content.
We used media reports to examine human-leopard interactions in
Rajasthan, India. We extracted news
reports on leopard-related incidents from January 2016 to December 2018. Incidents (n= 338) were categorized, mapped,
and analysed to understand their nature and extent. We found leopard-related news from 26 of 33
districts; a majority of these were in the eastern region of the State. Most of the reported interactions appeared to
be non-negative, despite losses to both leopards and people. Our results provide a synthesis of
spatio-temporal patterns of leopard-related incidents, which could help
wildlife managers in better addressing negative interactions. The study also demonstrates how news reports
could be useful for examining human-wildlife interactions across large spatial
scales.
Keywords: Carnivores, conflict,
conservation, human-wildlife interactions, management, Rajasthan.
INTRODUCTION
Conserving wildlife while
simultaneously balancing human welfare presents several challenges (Peterson
et al. 2010), especially when large, potentially dangerous wildlife share
spaces with humans (Treves & Karanth 2003). Besides ecological considerations, conserving
such wildlife species requires an understanding of social contexts such as
local politics, culture, religion, and ethnic attributes (Dickman
2010; Chapron & López-Bao 2014). Large carnivores are generally wide-ranging,
and many species live in human-dominated landscapes (Ripple et al.
2014). Predators like Coyotes Canis latrans in Canada, Tibetan Black Bears Ursus
thibetanus in Japan, Grey Wolves Canis lupus in parts of North America & Europe, Jaguars Panthera
onca & Pumas Puma concolor in South America, and several carnivore species in Africa have been
documented to share spaces with humans (Vynne et al. 2011; Alexander
& Quinn 2012; Sakurai et al. 2013).
‘Shared spaces’ by their very
nature entail some amount of negative interactions between humans and
carnivores (Peterson et al. 2010).
When these negative interactions intensify, they transform and
perpetuate as negative attitudes, especially when people perceive that state
agencies or managers prioritise wildlife over human safety and wellbeing (Madden
2004). Historically, conservation
policies across countries and regions have approached the issue by considering
carnivores and their habitats, and humans to be disparate entities with little
to no overlap (Athreya et al. 2013; Chapron et al. 2014). But over time, studies have quelled this
notion and provided empirical evidence for an evolving concept of
human-carnivore associations that demonstrate the fluid nature of the
dimensions they share (Ghosal et al. 2013; Athreya et al. 2015; Dhee
et al. 2019).
Three of the four large felid
species in India—the Asiatic Lion Panthera leo persica, Tiger Panthera tigris, and the Common Leopard Panthera
pardus—share space with high densities of humans and livestock (Banerjee
et al. 2013; Joshi et al. 2013; Athreya et al. 2015). Among them, leopards show the highest overlap
with human-use areas in the country (Karanth et al. 2013; Athreya et
al. 2015; Kshettry et al. 2017).
Leopards are highly adaptable, wide-ranging predators occurring in a
variety of landscapes, from forested protected areas to densely human-populated
urban centres (Jacobson et al. 2016). Their body size, hunting strategies and
highly eclectic dietary preferences allow them to thrive on a broad spectrum of
prey species (wild and domestic). They
can potentially live in human-dominated landscapes with relatively low levels
of damage to human life and property under certain conditions (Athreya
et al. 2013, 2016; Kshettry et al. 2018; Puri et al. 2020). Their populations, however, continue to
dwindle due to habitat loss, direct persecution or illegal trade of body parts
across the distribution range; the IUCN Red List therefore categorizes them as
Vulnerable (Stein et al. 2011).
A combination of (a) limited knowledge about their interactions with
humans, (b) absence of viable mitigation strategies to counter negative
interactions in shared landscapes, and (c) consequences from damages caused to
people and livestock (Stein et al. 2011) create conservation
concerns, necessitating the exploration of approaches to foster human-leopard
co-existence in human-dominated landscapes.
Print media holds immense power
and clout in creating and sustaining narratives based on how it represents
human-leopard interactions in human-dominated areas (Crown &
Doubleday 2017). Previously, studies
have addressed this by assessing the type, nature and tone of content
communicated through the media (Bhatia et al. 2013; Hathaway et al.
2017) and asserted that issues related to large carnivores are more ‘worthy’ of
a news report if the incidence represents an overall negative view. This can potentially create a bias against
wildlife and undermine conservation goals to an extent (Bornatowski
et al. 2019). The public who consume
such content get an incomplete understanding of the actual gravity of the
incident(s) and this can either attenuate or amplify their perception of risk,
leading to diminished human acceptance of wildlife (Knopff et al.
2016). Other studies have used media
reports to map the distribution of the leopards and patterns of depredation
using spatial models, while also assessing social and management factors
associated with negative interactions (Athreya et al. 2015). Therefore, media is not only a source of information
but can also provide a broader view of human-leopard interactions and can
potentially inform conflict mitigation strategies.
In this study, we examined
human-leopard interactions reported in the media from the state of Rajasthan in
northwestern India. The State’s local
print media extensively covers leopard-related incidents, and has a considerably
wide readership. We used media records
to assess spatial and temporal patterns of leopard-related incidents in the
State, and then analysed negative interactions in terms of losses or damages
faced by leopards and people. Finally,
we examined current management strategies that involve leopard captures and
translocations, providing an analysis of the locations of physical captures,
the reasons behind the captures, and the relevance of these interventions for leopard conservation in
human-use areas.
MATERIAL
AND METHODS
Ethics Statement
The study was implemented using
archived reports from print media and some forest department records. The study does not contain personal
information of any human subjects. Approval
of animal care and use committee and of human ethics committee was not
required.
Study area
The State of Rajasthan in
northwestern India covers an area of around 350,000 km2 (10.4% of
the country’s total geographical area; Fig. 1), and supports a population of
68,900,000 people with a density of ~200 humans per km2. The literacy rate in the State stands at
66.11%, with 75% of the population—mostly agricultural and pastoral
communities—residing in rural areas (Census of India 2011). The State has 33 districts (administrative
units) and 241 sub-districts (locally called ‘tehsils’). Major geographic features of the State
include the Thar Desert in the west, and the Aravalli Hill range that spans
more than 850 km from the south to the northeastern parts. The vegetation in the State is diverse,
ranging from desert dunes, scrub, deciduous forests, forest plantations, saline
or swampy grasslands with a mosaic of seasonal agriculture belts, urban
settlements, and barren lands. The
region is largely arid/semi-arid, with low rainfall throughout the year (100–1,000 mm).
The print media in the State
frequently covers leopard-related incidents.
The types of reports vary from leopard sightings outside protected areas
to attacks on humans & livestock and leopard deaths. They also report on the presence of leopards
in human settlements, which often leads to capture/rescue and translocation
operations. Reports of these incidents
are primarily in Hindi, which is the most widely-spoken language in the State. The wide readership of print media, and its
role in reporting leopard-related incidents, lend themselves to two
considerations from a management perspective: first, it is important to analyse
the content that is represented in newspapers; and second, the spatial and
temporal patterns or trends of these reported incidents, particularly outside
protected areas.
Data collection and processing
We selected Rajasthan Patrika (published in Hindi) as an ideally suited media
publication for our study, because it has high readership across the State with
an average issue readership of 7,586,000 people (Indian Readership Survey 2017)
as compared to average issue readership of other regional publications (Punjab Kesari with 3,252,000 and Navbharat Times with 2,327,000 people). All the reports pertaining to leopard-related
incidents were collected from the publication’s online portal (www.patrika.com/rajasthan-news/), from January 2016 to December
2018. We extracted detailed information
on various aspects of human-leopard interactions (see Table 1), including precise
geographic location (name of village/town/city, sub district, district), date
of event, time of event and type of event, along with associated details about
the leopard(s) involved in the incident, and livestock/human victims. Media reports were classified into major
thematic categories, multiple reports pertaining to the same incident were
combined, and each incident was assigned a unique identification code before
being archived (see Supplementary Table 1).
Spatial patterns of
leopard-related incidents
Our objective was to use media
reports to identify spatial patterns of human-leopard interactions in the
State. We spatially mapped the number of
media reports by assigning incidents to the corresponding districts and
determined geographic coordinates of the village/town/city named in each media
report using Google Earth (version 7.3.2).
To minimize errors arising from villages with same/similar names, we
used a directory of village names (from government records), tracing their
locations by sub-district and district names as additional qualifiers. Reports for which we could not reliably
assign spatial locations were excluded from the spatial maps; other relevant
information from such reports was nonetheless used for examining aspects
related to leopards and/or the livestock/human victims. We used geospatial software QGIS (version
3.4.6) to generate spatial maps for each category of leopard-related incidents
as detailed in Table 1.
Characterizing human and
livestock attacks
We undertook detailed analyses of
specific cases where leopard attacks on livestock/humans were reported. First, we sought to identify temporal
patterns (if any) in these attacks.
Using date and month information as reported in the newspapers, we
broadly classified unique incidents of leopard attacks based on seasons
(Summer—March to June, Monsoon—July to October, and Winter—November to
February). Next, we analysed information
on the specific locations of human attacks, the activity of humans during the
attack and the demographics of human victims (sex and age group, i.e.,
male/female, infant/young/adult; where, infant: <5 years, young: 5–18 years,
and adult: >18 years). Similarly, we
also created a profile of all the livestock attacked, as presented in
individual reports (species/breed, and young/adult).
Fate of leopards outside
protected areas
We examined three aspects related
to the fate of leopards outside protected areas in Rajasthan. Given that mortality can severely impact
leopard populations, we examined the causes of leopard deaths based on
reportage. Second, we examined the
reasons for management interventions that involved physical captures of
leopards. For these events, specifically,
we used data from forest department records of leopard captures and releases in
the State to corroborate information reported in the media. Finally, we also recorded the locations where
leopard cubs were reported and measured their distance to the nearest protected
area. While doing so, we included
protected areas from Rajasthan and also from the neighbouring states of Madhya
Pradesh and Gujarat, since some locations could have been closer to the
protected areas within these states rather than in Rajasthan.
RESULTS
Systematic searches of Rajasthan Patrika e-newspapers, available from the
publication’s online portal, yielded 306 media reports pertaining to
leopard-related incidents that occurred between January 2016 and December
2018. We recorded a total of 338
leopard-related incidents, after thorough processing and separating out
instances where multiple unique incidents were documented in the same
report(s). Most incidents were reported
within a day’s time since the occurrence of the event.
We found that
26 of 33 districts in the State of Rajasthan reported leopard-related
incidents. Almost all incidents across
categories were in the eastern half of the State (Fig. 2), and the highest
frequencies of events were clustered in the southern districts (see Table 2). Of the reports related to human attacks (n=
78) during the period of our study, around 50% were in the southern districts
of Udaipur, Rajsamand, Dungarpur, Banswara, and Pratapgarh. Udaipur had the highest percentage of reports
on human attacks (18%) followed by Rajsamand (14%), Alwar (8%), Banswara (8%),
and Jaipur (6%). Human deaths in the
period from January 2016 to December 2018 (n= 15) occurred in Rajsamand (6),
Alwar (3), Udaipur (2), Pratapgarh (2), and Jaipur (2). For livestock attacks (n= 79), the eastern
district of Jaipur had the highest number of reports (28%) followed by the
southern districts of Udaipur (14%), Rajsamand (12%), Banswara (7%), and
Dungarpur (6%).
Attacks on humans and livestock
The number of human attacks
reported was similar in summer and winter months; monsoon months had much fewer
attacks. Most attacks on livestock were
reported in the summer months, and least in the monsoon months (Figure 3). The 78 media reports on human attacks
involved 120 people (85 male and 35 female).
Fifteen of these 120 (5 male and 10 female) resulted in fatalities. Most of the victims attacked (76 of 120) were
adults, while 20 were young and one was an infant; the age of the victim was
not reported in 23 cases. Except for 12% of attacks on
people in forest areas and 12% of attacks for which exact location was
unknown/not reported, all other attacks took place in predominantly human-use
areas. Attacks in farmlands were the
highest, at 38% (Figure 4). Most (53%)
of the victims were attacked while they were engaged in outdoor
activities. About 11% and 14% of the
people were attacked inside their house and during a mob commotion around a
leopard, respectively. Around 21% of the
attacks did not have any reported details regarding the activity of the victim
(Figure 5).
More than 50% of media reports on
livestock attacks pertained to goat and sheep deaths, followed by reports on
calves of cows (~23%). A relatively
lower number of reported attacks were on adult cows and buffalo calves (12% of
reports each).
Leopard mortalities and physical
captures
Media reports analysed in this
study included 56 cases of leopard deaths (outside protected areas). Considering the subset that included reports
where the cause of death was known (63% of total), 52% of deaths were due to vehicular
collisions on roads or railway lines.
Ten road-collision incidents occurred on national or state
highways. The second most common cause
was accidental deaths after falling into open wells (20%). Retaliatory killing by people accounted for
11% of deaths, and the other 17% of cases included electrocution, trapping and
death following rescue operations. Three
cases have been reported of probable death by poaching, with indications like
missing nails, teeth, and heads. Around
37% of cases did not report the cause of death, or, indicated that the cause
could not be conclusively determined.
We recorded a total of 32 cases
of physical capture/removal of leopards through direct intervention of the
forest department personnel. More than
50% of these captures were undertaken following a leopard sighting in human-use
areas (indicating leopard presence, but no damage to human life or
property). Captures/removals following
attacks on humans and livestock occurred in 25% and 19% of the cases,
respectively, with one case where the reason for capture was not reported.
The presence of breeding leopards
was recorded from 15 sub-districts, where 36 cubs were rescued by the forest
department and eight cubs were found dead during the study period. We found that the average distance between
the location from where cubs’ presence was reported and the nearest protected
area was ~39 km (range= 0–104 km).
DISCUSSION
Information on species like
leopards is hard to obtain from fully human-dominated landscapes, especially at
broad spatial scales within a short duration and in a cost-effective manner
(Athreya et al. 2015). We analysed
media reports to better understand leopard-human interactions across
Rajasthan. We show that media reports
can serve as an important resource to obtain quick yet valuable information on
wildlife across a large landscape, where implementing other common field-based
survey methods would be economically and logistically infeasible. The reports we analysed over the three-year
duration indicated that leopard-related incidents were largely restricted to
the eastern zone of the State panning two major areas. The first was in the southern districts of
Rajsamand, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara, and borders of Pali. The second area was in the northeastern
districts of Jaipur, Alwar, Sikar, and Dausa.
Both these areas constituted 50% and 22% of all reported incidents,
respectively. This spatial pattern
likely reflects habitat types and vegetation cover across the eastern and the
northeastern zones, which have higher prey (wild and domestic)
availability. The western zone of the
State consists of largely open, barren, desert habitats, making it unsuitable
for leopards, although, very few records were present from some parts of the
western zone.
Telemetry studies of leopards
from across their global range suggest that their home ranges could vary from 2
to 600 km2 (average= 160km2, median= 54km2)
(Simcharoen et al. 2008; Steyn & Funston 2009; Weilenmann et al.
2010; Grey 2011; Stein et al. 2011; Habib et al. 2014; Rozhnov et al. 2015;
Fattebert et al. 2016; Kittle et al. 2017).
Considered together with the fact that leopard cubs were found up to 104
km away from the nearest protected area, our assessment provides evidence in
favour of resident, breeding leopard populations in human-dominated areas of
the State. Studies in Karnataka and
Maharashtra have reported similar cases of resident leopard populations in
completely human-dominated areas (Athreya et al. 2013, 2015). Although most of the leopard-related
incidents we report were in the rugged, hilly areas of the eastern region, some
leopards were also reported from the relatively open, arid western region,
indicating a rather widespread distribution of the species across the State.
Analysis of the reportage
indicated that 29% (n= 90) was related to only leopard sightings. A total of 70% (n= 38) of the reports on
livestock depredation involved attacks on goats and calves, indicating that the
leopards are generally pursuing small or medium-sized domestic prey. With respect to human victims, we found that
adult males accounted for 75% of all attacks.
This may be due to two reasons: first, men generally intervened to ‘handle’ situations involving leopards
in human-use areas before the arrival of the forest department personnel, and
men were also more prone to the attacks in the open ruckus created amidst a mob
during rescue operations; second, many attack incidents took place when the
victims were grazing their livestock, which is almost always carried out by the
men in the family. On the other hand,
young children were typically attacked when they were asleep or were left
unsupervised. Taken together, 15 of the
120 attacks resulted in the death of the victim, suggesting that loss of human
life, although a very grave issue, is not the norm.
There were many reports regarding
the death of leopards (n= 56), and among the known causes, 43% were because of
road collisions on the state or national highways. Similar results were found in a study in
Karnataka (Gubbi et al. 2014).
Such linear infrastructures, besides causing direct mortalities, can
also impact the gene flow of large carnivores like Tigers and Leopards (Thatte
et al. 2019; Jayadevan et al. 2020).
There is greater need to mitigate mortality due to linear infrastructure
and information of high leopard mortality due to roads/railways from our
analysis of media reports shows the same for the state of Rajasthan. Based on the district-wise maps of mortality
we present, mitigation measures such as increasing the number of speed
breakers, installing road signages of animal crossing/presence and vehicle
patrols at the national or state highways may be implemented by management
authorities.
Locations with frequent physical
captures of leopards somewhat correlated with high numbers of human and livestock
attacks. Studies have shown that removal
of carnivores may increase conflict due to social disruption, and is also
ineffective in reducing population densities because new individuals
immediately occupy these vacant territories (Linnell et al. 1997). These new individuals would further alleviate
conflict situations since they are not familiar with the area (Lindzey et al.
1992; Cooley et al. 2009; Athreya et al. 2010).
Around 53% of the captures reported were carried out following a leopard
sighting (with no attacks on people or livestock). Such removals, generally executed by the
forest department under media pressure, may affect the attitude of local
residents and generate more intolerance towards leopards. We argue that removals which do not involve
any negative interaction among human and leopards will not help mitigate
conflict. Large carnivores typically
require large spaces, invariably creating some overlap with human-use areas and
it is highly important to accept these dynamics at the policy and management
levels (MOEF Guidelines for human-leopard conflict management 2011).
CONCLUSION
Our study provides some key
insights on leopard ecology and human-leopard interactions in the state of
Rajasthan. A more rigorous, field-based
approach in the areas of high conflict could have helped better understand the
socio-political and economical aspects, while offering information on
ecologically favourable, leopard-friendly landscapes. Despite the limitations in the overall scope
because of the methods we chose, our findings still offer a broad understanding
of the status of leopards at a state-wide scale.
We show that
media reports can be used for quick and cost-effective information to assess
the spread of leopard incidences across wide spatial scales. Leopards are widely distributed across
Rajasthan, and negative interactions between people and leopards, although
widespread, are mainly in the eastern part of the State. The maps we present can be useful for
prioritizing management efforts in managing leopard populations, conflict
situations and channeling monetary resources.
Our results could serve as a basis for wildlife managers and the
government to initiate a detailed assessment of leopard populations in specific
locations, focused on human-use landscapes.
Finally, the media acts as a
frontier for disseminating information to the public. Since, print media is the main source of news
across the State, it plays a key role in shaping public perception towards
wildlife. In our study, it appeared to
be portraying a level of conflict that was higher than what data-based analysis
revealed. A more responsible and
measured reporting of leopard-related incidents by the regional media outlets
could go a long way in bettering people’s perceptions towards and acceptance of
leopards in shared landscapes.
Considered together, these multiple, interlinked strategies could be
helpful to adequately mitigate negative interactions between humans and
leopards, and aid in leopard conservation in the long term.
Table 1. Major thematic
categories of leopard-related incidents in Rajasthan, based on information
extracted from media reports (January 2016–December 2018).
|
Category |
Description |
|
Leopard sightings |
Leopards sighted by
people outside Protected Areas; within village limits, on roads, inside
livestock shelters, forested areas near villages, urban/industrial
establishments, agricultural fields, or open/barren areas. |
|
Livestock attacks |
Attacks on domestic
livestock– goat, sheep, cow, calf of a cow or calf of a buffalo– inside
livestock shelters or during herding activity. Attacks on guard dogs were
also included, separately. |
|
Human attacks |
Attacks in
self-defense in a mob, incidental attacks on humans during attacks on
livestock, deliberate attacks on children, attacks on adult humans in
agricultural fields, attack on department personnel during capture
operations. |
|
Leopard deaths |
Incidents involving
leopard deaths: natural death, poaching (missing body parts such as nails or
teeth), vehicular/train collision, electrocution, retaliatory killing, death
during capture/rescue/translocation operations. |
|
Leopard rescues |
Incidents where
Forest Department personnel rescued leopards from open wells, iron traps,
following road collisions or rescues of cubs from human-use areas. |
|
Leopard captures |
Leopards captured
by Forest Department from a village/town/city for translocation to other
sites. Capture of leopards was usually a consequence of leopard sightings in
human-use areas, attacks on livestock and/or attacks on humans. |
Table 2. Top five districts in
each category ranked based leopard-related incidents reported. Figures in
parentheses are the actual numbers of reports from the corresponding district
(January 2016–December 2018)
|
Rank |
Leopard sighting |
Livestock attacks |
Human attacks |
Leopard deaths |
Leopard rescues |
Leopard captures |
|
1 |
Rajsamand (14) |
Jaipur (25) |
Udaipur (14) |
Rajsamand (11) |
Rajsamand (9) |
Rajsamand (6) |
|
2 |
Udaipur (13) |
Udaipur (13) |
Rajsamand (11) |
Udaipur (7) |
Udaipur (4) |
Alwar (4) |
|
3 |
Jaipur (12) |
Rajsamand (11) |
Alwar (6) |
Bhilwara (5) |
Banswara (3) |
S. Madhopur (4) |
|
4 |
S. Madhopur (7) |
Banswara (6) |
Banswara (6) |
Pali (5) |
Jaipur (3) |
Udaipur (3) |
|
5 |
Bhilwara (5) |
Dungarpur (5) |
Jaipur (5) |
Alwar (4) |
Alwar (2) |
Jaipur (3) |
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Supplementary Table 1. Raw data
pertaining to leopard-related incidents complied from media reports in Rajasthan
(2015–2018).
|
Unique ID |
Type of incident |
Date published |
Village name |
Tehsil/District |
Time of incident |
Habitat/Area |
Sex of leopard |
Reason for capture |
Comments |
Description of human attacks |
|
R1 |
Leopard sighting |
05-Jan-18 |
Bariya meda |
Masuda (Ajmer) |
Day |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard chased by the villagers |
|
|
R2 |
Human attack |
10-Jan-18 |
Jarpha |
Kumbhalgarh (Rajsamand) |
Dawn |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Attacked on female who then
died, was collecting timber in the forest |
Female; Adult |
|
R3 |
Dead Leopard |
13-Jan-18 |
Lekri |
Bansur (Alwar) |
NA |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Dead body found |
|
|
R4 |
Livestock attack |
18-Jan-18 |
Bidara |
Shahpura (Jaipur) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a goat |
|
|
R5 |
Leopard sighting; Human attack;
Captured |
18-Jan-18 |
Panoria, Madawao, Fagaliya |
Chohtan (Barmer) |
Day (Captured from fagaliya) |
Not given |
Not given |
Leopard sight; Attack on human |
Leopard sight (Panoria),
attacked on two people (Madawao), Captured (Fagaliya) |
Not given; Not given |
|
R6 |
Human attack |
23-Jan-18 |
Hempura (Mandesara) |
Bhainsrodgarh (Chittorgarh) |
Not given |
Open field |
Not given |
|
attack happened on a male while
he was defecating |
Male; Adult |
|
R7 |
Human attack; Livestock attack |
27-Jan-18 |
Kathar, Bamnia |
Girwa & Salumbar (Udaipur) |
Dusk (Kathar), Night (Bamnia) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attack on a male in livestock
shed (Kathar), Attack on goat (Bamnia) |
Male; Adult |
|
R8 |
Rescued |
29-Jan-18 |
Amberi |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
R9 |
Leopard sighting; Human attack;
Rescued |
31-Jan-18 |
Kothun road, Lalsot town |
Lalsot (Dausa) |
Dawn |
Town |
Not given |
Leopard sight; Attack on human |
Attacks on multiple human
(hotel owner and few other) in defense, got hardly beaten by people in
retaliation |
Male; Adult; Female; Young |
|
R10 |
Dead Leopard; Captured |
02-Feb-18 |
Kaya, Keora |
Girwa & Salumbar (Udaipur) |
Night (Keora) |
Cropfield; Forest |
Female (Both cases) |
Leopard sight |
Wheat cropfield in kaya,
captured by FD |
|
|
R11 |
Leopard sighting |
11-Feb-18 |
Kota thermal power plant |
Kota |
Night |
Power plant |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
R12 |
Human attack |
15-Feb-18 |
Bawarla |
Sanchore (Jalore) |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Probably strayed leopard,
attacked on a young male |
Male; Not given |
|
R13 |
Dead Leopard |
15-Feb-18 |
Baori chhota bhanuja |
Khamnor (Rajsamand) |
NA |
Forest |
Female |
|
Electrocuted |
|
|
R14 |
Leopard sighting |
17-Feb-18 |
Ghaghar valley (Near
Daulatgarh, Asind) |
Asind (Bhilwara) |
Night |
Forest |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
R15 |
Dead Leopard |
17-Feb-18 |
Bemali chauraha, Karera |
Mandal (Bhilwara) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard fallen in well with a
dog |
|
|
R16 |
Livestock attack |
20-Feb-18 |
Kemariya |
Asind (Bhilwara) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on goats, Todgarh
raoli wildlife sanctuary is nearby |
|
|
R17 |
Livestock attack |
21-Feb-18 |
Kanela |
Ghatol (Banswara) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on goats and killed a
dog too |
|
|
R18 |
Human attack; Captured |
22-Feb-18 |
Dhako ka tala (Navatala
rathodan) |
Chohtan (Barmer) |
Day |
Village |
Not given |
Human attack |
attacked on 5 males, was
searching for food and water Release in Machia safari park, Probably same
strayed leopard of R12 |
Male; Adult |
|
R19 |
Captured |
23-Feb-18 |
Seth ji ki kundal |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
Livestock attack |
Captured from the village,
killed a goat |
|
|
R20 |
Leopard sighting |
23-Feb-18 |
Kherla |
Khandar (Sawai madhopur) |
Night |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
A Male fell down in a well and
died, although just chased by the leopard |
|
|
R21 |
Leopard sighting |
24-Feb-18 |
Amagarh |
Jaipur urban |
Day |
Forest |
Female (Cub) |
|
Jhalana leopard conservation
reserve is nearby |
|
|
R22 |
Dead Leopard |
26-Feb-18 |
Ghasiyar (Pindwara highway) |
Bargaon (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
R23 |
Dead Leopard |
28-Feb-18 |
Tolawas (Talvriksh range,
Sariska) |
Thanagazi (Alwar) |
NA |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Found dead on a tree |
|
|
R24 |
Livestock attack; Dead Leopard |
28-Feb-18 |
Kothar and Bisalpur |
Bali (Pali) |
Night (Kothar) |
Village; Forest |
Not given |
|
Attacked and killed multiple
goat and sheep in Kothar, Leopard consevation area of Bisalpur |
|
|
R25 |
Dead Leopard |
04-Mar-18 |
Kalimagri, (Kunwariya) |
Rajsamand |
Not given |
Cropfield |
One Female, One Male cub |
Both died after falling in a
well |
|
|
|
R26 |
Rescued |
06-Mar-18 |
Chhora and Dudapura |
Desuri (Pali) |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard was trapped in iron
trap, Multiple other traps found by FD in the area |
|
|
R27 |
Livestock attack |
14-Mar-18 |
Mohanpura, (Kundera range,
Ranthambore) |
Sawai madhopur |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked and killed 8 sheep |
|
|
R28 |
Leopard sighting |
14-Mar-18 |
Jilda ki dhani, (Kho nagoriyan) |
Sanganer (Jaipur) |
Night |
Cropfield |
Female |
|
Wheat cropfield, Killeda dog
the same night |
|
|
R29 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
17-Mar-18 |
Shyalodara |
Neem ka thana (Sikar) |
Dusk |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard came in village and
tried to get some livestock kill, killed 2 goats days back |
|
|
R30 |
Leopard sighting; Human attack;
Livestock attack |
19-Mar-18 |
Sewaradhani, Jodhoola, Talva,
Galawas, Bihajar, Satana, Sar |
Viratnagar, all except sar in
amber (Jaipur) |
Dawn (Sewaradhani), Night (Sar) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed livestock in Sar, Spooted in
livestock shed in sewaradhani, Attacked on female in Jodhoola, Livestock kill
in other villages |
Female; Adult |
|
R31 |
Livestock attack |
20-Mar-18 |
Nichli bhagal, (Khamnor) |
Khamnor (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Town |
Not given |
|
Killed a goat |
|
|
R32 |
Captured |
26-Mar-18 |
Hanumatpur, (Datooli panchayat) |
Bonli (Sawai madhopur) |
Day |
Village |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
Captured by ranthambore team
and released inside the ranthambore national park |
|
|
R33 |
Livestock attack |
08-Apr-18 |
Arampura forest range |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a shepherd's herd |
|
|
R34 |
Human attack |
09-Apr-18 |
Neelka |
Viratnagar (Jaipur) |
Dawn |
Village |
Female |
|
Leopardess came in the village
and attacked on a male got killed in retalliation by villagers. |
Male; Young |
|
R35 |
Human attack |
10-Apr-18 |
Parawa |
Sujangarh (Churu) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
Human attack |
Attacked on a shepherd and
shepherd's herd |
Male; Young |
|
R36 |
Dead Leopard |
10-Apr-18 |
Jhar, (Banskhoh) |
Bassi (Jaipur) |
Night |
Forest |
Female |
|
Leopardess hit by train |
|
|
R37 |
Dead Leopard |
11-Apr-18 |
Umrakhal, (Kesarpura panchayat) |
Banswara |
NA |
Village |
Female |
|
Found dead in a well |
|
|
R38 |
Leopard sighting; Human attack |
14-Apr-18 |
Bhamod, Palari, Norangpura,
Shyampura, Antela, Teori, Med |
Viratnagar (Jaipur) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked a male in
antela, sightings in other villages |
Male; Not given |
|
R39 |
Livestock attack |
17-Apr-18 |
Sindoli, Bhanwata (Kundal) |
Dausa and Bandikui (Dausa) |
Night (Bhanwata) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Buffalo calf (Bhanwata), Cow;
's calf (Sindoli) |
|
|
R40 |
Leopard sighting |
17-Apr-18 |
Malviyanagar industrial area |
Jaipur urban |
Night |
City |
Not given |
|
Jhalana leopard conservation
reserve is nearby |
|
|
R41 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
19-Apr-18 |
Khoonta, Bharkhundi |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Not given |
Village |
Female and two cubs |
Killed goats, few sightings |
|
|
|
R42 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
20-Apr-18 |
Bramaro ka badhia, (Karera) |
Mandal (Bhilwara) |
Dusk |
Mines |
Leopard couple and two cubs |
Killed a cow's calf |
|
|
|
R43 |
Human attack |
21-Apr-18 |
Sabdara |
Asind (Bhilwara) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
entered in village and attacked two males (adult)
Retaliation from villagers |
Male; Adult |
|
R44 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
24-Apr-18 |
Satana, Jodhula, Antela, Johad
villages |
Viratnagar (Jaipur) |
Dawn (Johad) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Sight in Johad, Multiple kills
of goats in other villages |
|
|
R45 |
Captured |
25-Apr-18 |
Kelwa |
Rajsamand |
Not given |
Mines |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
|
|
|
R46 |
Leopard sighting; Human attack;
Livestock attack |
25-Apr-18 |
Ven, Thoota mahoora, Kenar,
Jhallara |
Salumbar (Udaipur) |
Night (Jhallara) |
Village |
Female & two cubs (Ven) |
Killed 6 goats and cow in ven,
Agoat and a sheep in thoota mahoora, spotted in jhallara, attacked on a
female in kenar while defecating |
Female; Adult |
|
|
R47 |
Livestock attack |
30-Apr-18 |
Roba, (Jagat panchayat),
Mangthala |
Girwa & Mavli (Udaipur) |
Night (Both places) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow's calf in roba,
goats in mangthala |
|
|
R48 |
Rescued |
09-Jun-18 |
Beneshwar dham |
Banswara |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Critically injured leopard |
|
|
R49 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
09-Jun-18 |
Jodhoola, Banganga,
Sewaradhani, Tevri |
Viratnagar (Jaipur) |
Night (Jodhoola) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 3 goats in jodhoola,
other villages reported with leopard sightings |
|
|
R50 |
Leopard sighting |
11-Jun-18 |
Near Baleshwar dham |
Neem ka thana (Sikar) |
Day |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard was fallen in a well,
Alive |
|
|
R51 |
Dead Leopard |
11-Jun-18 |
Thana and Bagjana villages,
(Karera) |
Mandal (Bhilwara) |
Not given |
Cropfield; Village |
Female (Thana) |
|
Female leopard's dead body found
in an open well in cropfield in thana; another dead leopard found in dumping
yard in bagjana |
|
|
R52 |
Leopard sighting; Captured |
11-Jun-18 |
Gudla, (Nathdwara) |
Nathdwara (Rajsamand) |
Day |
Village |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
Leopard found inside a sewer
pipe, captured by FD |
|
|
R53 |
Human attack; Captured |
13-Jun-18 |
Theekariya |
Sri madhopur (Sikar) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
Human attack |
Found in wheat cropfield,
attacked on FD guard and a villager in defense, later captured and released
In neem ka thana forest area |
Male; Adult |
|
R54 |
Human attack |
15-Jun-18 |
Adwas |
Sarada (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a female while she
was working in cropfield |
Female; Adult |
|
R55 |
Livestock attack |
17-Jun-18 |
Gopalpura, Adwas |
Sarada (Udaipur) |
Night (Both cases) |
Cropfield; Village |
Not given |
|
Killed acow in gopalpura,
killeda cow's calf in adwas |
|
|
R56 |
Leopard sighting |
20-Jun-18 |
Kolar, (Sarada) |
Sarada (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
R57 |
Dead Leopard |
28-Jun-18 |
Power house chauraha, Udaipur
dabok highway |
Mavli (Udaipur) |
Night |
Town |
Not given |
|
Leopard killed in road accident |
|
|
R58 |
Leopard sighting |
01-Jul-18 |
Kelwa |
Rajsamand |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given but a cub |
|
|
|
|
R59 |
Rescued |
05-Jul-18 |
Khorlai, (Pratapgarh) |
Thanagazi (Alwar) |
Night |
Village |
Male |
|
Leopard fallen in a well,
rescued by FD and taken to nahargarh biological park |
|
|
R60 |
Livestock attack |
07-Jul-18 |
Khadka, (Kalota) |
Dausa |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow's calf |
|
|
R61 |
Livestock attack |
12-Jul-18 |
Jhalra |
Asind (Bhilwara) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard killed 3 goats in
multiple attempts in a night |
|
|
R62 |
Dead Leopard |
20-Jul-18 |
Veerbala dhani, (Gaori) |
|
Dawn |
Open field |
Male |
|
Dead leopard found in mountains |
|
|
R63 |
Livestock attack |
22-Jul-18 |
Itawada, (Khandar forest range,
Ranthambore) |
Khandar (Sawai madhopur) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow's calf |
|
|
R64 |
Human attack |
22-Jul-18 |
Doom khera |
Rajsamand |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a female while she
was working in cropfield |
Female; Young |
|
R65 |
Leopard sighting |
03-Aug-18 |
Chirwa valley of flowers |
Bargaon (Udaipur) |
Day |
Forest |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
R66 |
Rescued |
11-Aug-18 |
Ghewar, (Tehla forest range,
Sariska) |
Rajgarh (Alwar) |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard fallen in a public use
well in the village and rescued by FD |
|
|
R67 |
Captured |
12-Aug-18 |
Cement factory area |
Sawai madhopur |
Not given |
City |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
Earlier 9 capturing also been
done by FD |
|
|
R68 |
Leopard sighting |
12-Aug-18 |
Baghera |
Sahara (Bhilwara) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
R69 |
Livestock attack |
13-Aug-18 |
Thali, Dagota, Neemla,
Shriramgopalpura, Bassi |
Jamwa Ramgarh (Jaipur) |
Night (Thali) |
Village |
Not given |
|
54 sheep 15 goats in thali,
cow's calf in neemla, cow in shri ramgopalpura, goats in dagota |
|
|
R70 |
Dead Leopard |
20-Aug-18 |
Lakhola |
Sahara (Bhilwara) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard fallen in a well and
died |
|
|
R71 |
Livestock attack |
21-Aug-18 |
Mamtori kalan, Poorawala,
Kukdela |
Viratnagar (Jaipur), Mamtori
kalan in shahpura |
Night (All cases) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed goats in every place. |
|
|
R72 |
Human attack |
24-Aug-18 |
Bhalon ka guda, (Gudli) |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
First case, Leopard attacked on
a shepherd in a cropfield who was their with livestock, in other case,
attacked a male in another cropfield who was also working |
Male; Adult |
|
R73 |
Leopard sighting |
28-Aug-18 |
Behind dudhia balaji temple |
Tonk |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Villagers claimed to have seen
a female cub with the leopard |
|
|
R74 |
Leopard sighting; Rescued |
03-Sep-18 |
Chaktodi chauraha, Nathdwara |
Nathdwara (Rajsamand) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Spotted in an ill state |
|
|
R75 |
Leopard sighting |
05-Sep-18 |
Agariya |
Amet (Rajsamand) |
Dusk |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard fallen in a well but FD
failed to rescue it. |
|
|
R76 |
Livestock attack |
07-Sep-18 |
Kundla, Aamloda, Badodia,
Gheota, Talva, Berki, Pando |
Viratnagar (Jaipur) |
Night, Dusk (Pando) |
Cropfield |
Female &Female with two
cubs (Pando) |
Female leopard killed acow's
calf in livestock shedin pando, Female leopard and two cubs in a cropfield in
pando, Multiple other killings in other villages mostly goats |
|
|
|
R77 |
Dead Leopard |
09-Sep-18 |
Netra |
Sumerpur (Pali) |
Dawn |
Village |
Male |
|
Leopard killed in road accident |
|
|
R78 |
Livestock attack |
16-Sep-18 |
Siras |
Niwai (Tonk) |
Not given |
Not given |
Femal with one female cub |
Killed several livestock
animals in the area, mostly around antariya balaji temple, Ranthambore NP is
nearby |
|
|
|
R79 |
Rescued |
19-Sep-18 |
kelwa |
Rajsamand |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Female cub |
|
Leopard fallen in well, Rescued
by FD and released in nearby forest area |
|
|
R80 |
Leopard sighting |
27-Sep-18 |
Kalodar canal (Saroli) |
Deoli (Tonk) |
Night |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by shepherds
near kalodar canal |
|
|
R81 |
Human attack |
11-Oct-18 |
Hada khera, (Gopalpura
panchayat, Dhariawad) |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a girl while she
was sleeping in house, she died (10 years old) |
Female; Young |
|
R82 |
Human attack |
16-Oct-18 |
Parsola, Mayakhedi, Hada khera,
(Dhariawad) |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Dusk (Mayakheri) |
Cropfield; Forest |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a female while she
was working in a cropfield, killed a cow in nearby forest of hadakhera |
Female; Young |
|
R82a |
Leopard sighting |
18-Oct-18 |
Mayakhedi, Lambikalam
(Dhariawad) |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Dusk (Lambikalam)Night
(Mayakheri) |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted in trap camera
in mayakheri with the previous mentioned kill of cow, also killed a cow in
lambikalam, karmeliya forest area |
|
|
R81a |
Leopard sighting |
19-Oct-18 |
Hada khera, Dhariawad |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard's continuous movement
through the mentioned village |
|
|
R83 |
Human attack |
21-Oct-18 |
Hada khera, (Gopalpura
panchayat, Dhariawad) |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked on a female
while she was defecating in the open |
Female; Adult |
|
R82b |
Leopard sighting |
22-Oct-18 |
Hadakhera |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Not given |
Not given |
Not given |
|
Continuation of above reports |
|
|
R82c |
Leopard sighting |
24-Oct-18 |
Hadakhera, Mayakheri |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Not given |
Not given |
Not given |
|
Continuation of above reports |
|
|
R82d |
Leopard sighting |
24-Oct-18 |
villages of above Karmelia
forest range, Dhariawad |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Not given |
Not given |
Not given |
|
Continuation of above reports |
|
|
R84 |
Leopard sighting |
25-Oct-18 |
Naharpura, (Pratapgarh
panchayat) |
Raipur (Pali) |
Night |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted near Beawar
Merta highway and vanished away |
|
|
R85 |
Human attack |
01-Nov-18 |
Parsola deola road |
Pratapgarh |
Night |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a male who was on
bike |
Male; Adult |
|
R86 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
09-Nov-18 |
Amarsar, Khori |
Shahpura (Jaipur) |
Night (Both cases) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard killed 4 goatsfrom
multiple sheds in amarsar, Another case whereby leopardis spotted byvillagers
in khori many times |
|
|
R87 |
Livestock attack |
11-Nov-18 |
Saledipura |
Khandela (Sikar) |
Not given |
Village |
Leopard couple |
|
|
|
|
R88 |
Dead Leopard |
13-Nov-18 |
Kadmal |
Gogunda (Udaipur) |
Night |
Village |
Female |
|
Leopard killed in road accident |
|
|
R89 |
Leopard sighting |
13-Nov-18 |
Bari ghati, (Thanwala) |
Riyan Badi (Nagaur) |
Night |
Forest |
Not given |
|
with a nilgai kill |
|
|
R90 |
Leopard sighting |
14-Nov-18 |
Basant bihar colony, Ajeetgarh
town |
Sri madhopur (Sikar) |
Dawn |
Town |
Not given |
|
Entered inside the colony and
later escaped away into the forest after being noticed |
|
|
R91 |
Human attack |
17-Nov-18 |
Bagori dhani, (Kotputli) |
Kotputli (Jaipur) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on threemales in
defense and later villagers killed the leopard in retaliation |
Male; Not given |
|
R92 |
Leopard sighting |
27-Nov-18 |
Manduthal , (Bhansol panchayat) |
Mavli (Udaipur) |
Night |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by villager in
nearby road, another villager claimed about recent livestockkillings |
|
|
R93 |
Human attack |
28-Nov-18 |
Keli |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a shepherd while
herding activity, Shepherd died |
Male; Young |
|
R94 |
Leopard sighting; Captured |
29-Nov-18 |
Prithvi singh ji ka khera |
Bhider (Udaipur) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
Leopard got stucked in barbed
wire while chasing nilgai, Captured by FD and released in nearby forest area |
|
|
R95 |
Human attack; Livestock attack;
Captured |
01-Dec-18 |
Bharkala |
Masuda (Ajmer) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
Livestock attack; Human attack |
Attacked on two males and three
females and killed 2 goats |
Male; Not given; Female; Not
given |
|
R96 |
Captured |
04-Dec-18 |
Suradiya |
Jawaja (Ajmer) |
Not given |
Village |
Female |
Leopard sight |
Releasedback in nearby todgarh
raoli forest |
|
|
R97 |
Dead Leopard |
13-Dec-18 |
Khoja kakar, Udaipur jaisamand
highway |
Udaipur |
Night |
Forest |
Male |
|
Leopard killed in a road
accident |
|
|
R98 |
Human attack |
15-Dec-18 |
Mandhan |
Behror (Alwar) |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a shepherd while
herding activity |
Male; Adult |
|
R99 |
Dead Leopard |
16-Dec-18 |
Tikar Talab, near Amet |
Amet (Rajsamand) |
Not given |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard died after getting
trapped in iron trap, although speculated to be for other animals. |
|
|
R100 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
16-Dec-18 |
Banipura, (Barnaoda panchayat),
Barod villages |
Khandar (Sawai madhopur) |
Night (Both cases) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard kiiled a cow's calf in
barod, spotted in banipura |
|
|
R101 |
Dead Leopard |
18-Dec-18 |
Bhagtol, (Ghatol forest range) |
Ghatol (Banswara) |
Dawn |
Forest |
Male |
|
FD found scratches on its body
and broken hind legs |
|
|
R102 |
Human attack |
18-Dec-18 |
Jhotara ki rohi |
Taranagar (Churu) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked on two males inside
the cropfields and got killed in retaliation |
Male; Adult |
|
R103 |
Human attack |
23-Dec-18 |
Laxmipura, (Ayana) |
Pipalda (Kota) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a male who
initially shouted afterseeing the leopard, defense? |
Male; Not given |
|
R104 |
Dead Leopard |
25-Dec-18 |
Upali odan road, (Nathdwara) |
Nathdwara (Rajsamand) |
Not given |
Town |
Not given |
|
Leopard killed in road accident |
|
|
R105 |
Leopard sighting |
27-Dec-18 |
Butati |
Degana (Nagaur) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted in puniya ki
dhani |
|
|
R106 |
Dead Leopard |
29-Dec-18 |
Vallabhgram |
Mandawar (Alwar) |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
R107 |
Leopard sighting |
29-Dec-18 |
Mundwa |
Mundwa (Nagaur) |
Dawn |
Mines |
Not given |
|
probably the same leopard
spotted in butati village |
|
|
S1 |
Leopard sighting |
03-Jan-17 |
Bishanpur, (Arjunpura khalsa) |
Pisangan (Ajmer) |
Not given |
Open field |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
S2 |
Human attack; Captured |
07-Jan-17 |
Manpura machedi |
Amber (Jaipur) |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
Leopard sight; Human atttack |
Captured by FD |
Not given; Not given |
|
S3 |
Dead Leopard |
10-Jan-17 |
Tonkepura balaji, (Dhaureta
panchayat) |
Mandrail (Karauli) |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Spotted by shepherds in an
injured state, later leopard died |
|
|
S4 |
Human attack |
20-Jan-17 |
Nada charanwas |
Danta ramgarh (Sikar) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked on 6 years old
who was savedby his father |
Male; Adult; Male; Young |
|
S5 |
Human attack |
Jan-17 |
Ojariya |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Dusk |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a female |
Female; Young |
|
S6 |
Livestock attack |
01-Feb-17 |
Nawabpura ki dhani |
Bhadesar (Chittorgarh) |
Dusk |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 5 goats |
|
|
S7 |
Livestock attack |
06-Feb-17 |
Bheemapura |
|
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 10 goats |
|
|
S8 |
Human attack |
13-Feb-17 |
Jaitpur, (Silibaori panchayat,
Sariska) |
Thanagazi (Alwar) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a female In cropfield and same day attacked on 2 other
people, 2 victims died, declared maneater leopard and shooton sight is issued |
Female; Adult; Not given; Not
given |
|
S9 |
Human attack; Dead Leopard |
16-Feb-17 |
Bhanor, Kharpina villages |
Salumbar & Girwa (Udaipur) |
Dusk (Bhanor), Dawn (Kharpina) |
Cropfield; Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a male and a female
in bhanor, leopard died in road accident in kharpina |
Male; Adult; Female; Adult |
|
S10 |
Livestock attack; Captured |
19-Feb-17 |
Banchhri, (Silibaori panchayat,
Sariska) |
Thanagazi (Alwar) |
Night |
Village |
Female (Captured one) |
Reason not given |
Attacked on cow's calf and a
dog, a female leopard was captured by FD a day before |
|
|
S10a |
Captured |
25-Feb-17 |
Silibaori area, Sariska |
Thanagazi (Alwar) |
Not given |
Not given |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
Leopard captured and thought to
be the same maneater leopard |
|
|
S11 |
Leopard sighting |
26-Feb-17 |
Ghana magra, (Bhavi) |
Bilara (Jodhpur) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard inside a farm house
from 2 days and killed 2 dogs , not captured |
|
|
S12 |
Human attack |
Feb-17 |
Mathuravat, (Rajorgarh
panchayat, Tehla) |
Rajgarh (Alwar) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked on female while she
went for a check on livestock |
Female; Adult |
|
S13 |
Human attack |
05-Mar-17 |
Bhadasiyan |
Parbatsar (Nagaur) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a male |
Male; Not given |
|
S14 |
Dead Leopard |
06-Mar-17 |
Near galta temple |
Sawai madhopur |
Dawn |
City |
Male cub |
|
Cub died after getting rescued |
|
|
S15 |
Leopard sighting |
10-Mar-17 |
Kulish smriti van |
Jaipur urban |
Not given |
Forest |
Leopard couple and a cub |
Entered and roaming around
kulish van from few days, came from jhalana |
|
|
|
S16 |
Livestock attack |
11-Mar-17 |
Pulan ki dhani, (Daulatpura) |
Sapotra (Karauli) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 14 sheep |
|
|
S17 |
Livestock attack; Captured |
16-Mar-17 |
Gopalpura, (Sariska) |
Thanagazi (Alwar) |
Dawn (Captured), Night
(Livestock attack) |
Village |
Not given |
Livestock attack |
Captured by FD and the night before
it killed 3 goats |
|
|
S18 |
Dead Leopard |
Mar-17 |
Baba kua forest, Garhi range |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Not given |
Forest |
Leopard cub |
|
Probaby died in clash with
other leopard |
|
|
S19 |
Dead Leopard |
02-Apr-17 |
Hamadpura, (Mohanpura
panchayat) |
Mandalgarh (Bhilwara) |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard hit by a train and died |
|
|
S20 |
Leopard sighting |
10-Apr-17 |
Giriraj parikrma |
Nathdwara (Rajsamand) |
Dawn |
Forest |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
S21 |
Human attack |
10-Apr-17 |
Anatpura, (Khandar range,
Ranthambore) |
Khandar (Swai madhopur) |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a male who was
defecating in the open |
Male; Adult |
|
S22 |
Livestock attack |
25-Apr-17 |
Baggar |
Bhim (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
two leopards killed 18 sheep
and 2 goats. |
|
|
S23 |
Human attack; Livestock attack |
Apr-17 |
Jaspur |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Day |
Forest |
Female and two cubs |
Attacked on two shepherds and
also killed a goat |
Male; Adult |
|
|
S24 |
Livestock attack |
Apr-17 |
Himmatsingh ka garha, (Asoda) |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow's calf |
|
|
S25 |
Dead Leopard |
03-May-17 |
Sanwata, (Talra range,
Ranthambore) |
Khandar (Sawai madhopur) |
Not given |
Open field |
Not given |
|
10 days olddead body, no
conclusion of reason of death |
|
|
S26 |
Leopard sighting |
21-May-17 |
Bonli |
Bonli (Sawai madhopur) |
Not given |
Town |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
S27 |
Livestock attack |
22-May-17 |
Kumawato ki dhani, (Bhagwan
nagar) |
Jaipur urban |
Night |
City |
Not given |
|
Killed 2 goats |
|
|
S28 |
Leopard sighting |
24-May-17 |
Bhawa |
Rajsamand |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Shepherd claimed to have seen
leopard couple but otherssaw one leopard |
|
|
S29 |
Livestock attack |
May-17 |
khoh nagoriyan |
Sanganer (Jaipur) |
Dusk |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 7 goats |
|
|
S30 |
Human attack |
May-17 |
Mohkampura forest area |
Kushalgarh (Banswara) |
Dusk |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Attacked on 3 males who stopped
near forest while travelling on a bike |
Male; Adult |
|
S31 |
Leopard sighting |
01-Jun-17 |
Ghat ki guni |
Jaipur urban |
Dusk |
City |
Not given |
|
Jhalana is nearby |
|
|
S32 |
Leopard sighting |
02-Jun-17 |
Khoonta |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
FD failed to capture the
leopard |
|
|
S33 |
Leopard sighting |
05-Jun-17 |
Cement factory area |
Sawai madhopur |
Dawn |
City |
Not given |
|
Leopard killed a cow's calf
(maybe stray cow) and left the body there |
|
|
S34 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
10-Jun-17 |
Kajawara |
Salumbar (Udaipur) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by owner which
killed a cow too and escaped |
|
|
S35 |
Livestock attack |
25-Jun-17 |
Himmatsingh ka garha, (Asoda) |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow's calf |
|
|
S36 |
Dead Leopard |
Jun-17 |
Navaghara |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Not given |
Forest |
Female |
|
retaliatory killing of leopard
by humans, FIR reported by people for animals |
|
|
S37 |
Livestock attack |
Jun-17 |
varwasa mafi, (Sabla) |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow's calf, earlier
incidents too |
|
|
S38 |
Dead Leopard |
Jun-17 |
Keora forest range, (Sarada) |
Sarada (Udaipur) |
Dusk |
Forest |
Female |
|
Found dead in the forest,
probably died of some disease |
|
|
S39 |
Human attack |
01-Jul-17 |
Saroo |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Not given |
Not given |
Not given |
|
Killed a male |
Male; Not given |
|
S40 |
Human attack |
08-Jul-17 |
Sela gurha |
Amet (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a girl, saved by
her father |
Female'; Young |
|
S41 |
Human attack |
10-Jul-17 |
Loharia para |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Night |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Killed a 8 year old boy |
Male; Young |
|
S42 |
Leopard sighting |
20-Jul-17 |
Sajjangarh |
Udaipur |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
S43 |
Human attack |
21-Jul-17 |
Malakhera |
Alwar |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Attacked while 2 shepherds
tried to save their livestock |
Male; Not given |
|
S44 |
Human attack; Captured |
31-Jul-17 |
Sawai madhopur urban |
Sawai madhopur |
Not given |
City |
Not given |
Human attack |
|
Male; Not given; Female; Adult |
|
S45 |
Rescued |
Jul-17 |
Kunwariya town |
Rajsamand |
Dusk |
Cropfield |
Two cubs |
|
Cubs fallen in a well, rescued
by FD |
|
|
S46 |
Human attack |
Jul-17 |
Kika ki naal, (Miyasa
panchayat) |
Ghatol (Banswara) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
attacked on two males in chilli
cropfield |
Male; Adult |
|
S47 |
Livestock attack |
Jul-17 |
Bagatpura, (Narana panchayat) |
Deogarh (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked and killed 29 sheep
and goats |
|
|
S48 |
Leopard sighting |
04-Aug-17 |
Mira sahab dargah |
Nainwa (Bundi) |
Day |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Inside Ramgarh wildlife
sanctuary |
|
|
S49 |
Livestock attack |
04-Aug-17 |
Damor pada, (Jaulana) |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 3 goats |
|
|
S49a |
Livestock attack |
13-Aug-17 |
Aneli pada, (Bhatar panchayat, Jaulana) |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 3 goats, villagers
claimed that a female leopard gave birth to three cubs in nearby babakuan
forest |
|
|
S50 |
Human attack |
01-Sep-17 |
Galata |
Jaipur urban |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a male priest |
Male; Adult |
|
S51 |
Dead Leopard |
03-Sep-17 |
Mundol panchayat |
Rajsamand |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Found dead in a cropfield,
probably died trying crossing the sidewall |
|
|
S52 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
11-Sep-17 |
Talawadi, Bamniawata (Jaulana) |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Night (Both cases) |
Open field; Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted in talawadi
area under bushes, killed 2 goats in different houses in bamniawata area |
|
|
S53 |
Rescued |
12-Sep-17 |
Sakarda |
Amet (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
FD rescued the leopard from a
well but it instantly ran away into the forest after getting out |
|
|
S54 |
Leopard sighting |
12-Sep-17 |
Jawar mines |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard got stucked in a room
next to livestock shed, rescued by FD |
|
|
S55 |
Livestock attack |
17-Sep-17 |
Dungariatalai, (Jaulana) |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 3 goats |
|
|
S56 |
Livestock attack |
18-Sep-17 |
Kelwa |
Rajsamand |
Night |
Town |
Not given |
|
Killed 7 goats |
|
|
S57 |
Livestock attack |
26-Sep-17 |
Kelwa |
Rajsamand |
Night |
Town |
Not given |
|
Killed 16 goats |
|
|
S58 |
Captured |
06-Oct-17 |
Cement factory area |
Sawai madhopur |
Not given |
City |
Male and a female |
Leopard sight |
Captured by FD, few others
roaming the area |
|
|
S59 |
Rescued |
08-Oct-17 |
Trilokpura, (Raisar panchayat) |
Jamwa ramgarh (Jaipur) |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
|
Found in a well, Rescued by FD |
|
|
S60 |
Dead Leopard |
24-Oct-17 |
Fiawadi, Rajsamand Bhilwara
highway |
Rajsamand |
Dusk |
Not given |
Female |
|
Leopard died in a road accident |
|
|
S61 |
Leopard sighting |
31-Oct-17 |
Kulish smriti van |
Jaipur urban |
Not given |
City |
Not given |
|
Spotted in university area,
jhalana is nearby |
|
|
S62 |
Captured |
31-Oct-17 |
Goradia ka bhilwara dhani,
(Samicha panchayat) |
Kumbhalgarh (Rajsamand) |
Dusk |
Village |
Not given |
Livestock attack |
was killing livestock from past
few days, captured by FD |
|
|
S63 |
Rescued |
21-Nov-17 |
Kelwa |
Rajsamand |
Dawn |
Mines |
Cub |
|
It wasfound diseased and taken
for medical care |
|
|
S64 |
Leopard sighting; Rescued |
21-Nov-17 |
Jawas |
Kherwara (Udaipur) |
Not given |
Open field |
Cub |
|
Spooted in the mountains, cub
was diseased and rescued for medical care |
|
|
S65 |
Livestock attack |
25-Nov-17 |
Jaisinghpura khor, (Brahmapuri) |
Jaipur urban |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 2 cows |
|
|
S66 |
Dead Leopard |
06-Dec-17 |
Jawahar nagar |
Jaipur urban |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Probably died in a clash with
other leopard |
|
|
S67 |
Rescued |
09-Dec-17 |
Mahudi |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
leopard was spotted was
villagers trapped in poachers trap and rescued by FD, taken to udaipur
biological park |
|
|
S68 |
Dead Leopard |
10-Dec-17 |
Jaitgarh (Sarveena panchayat) |
Beawar (Ajmer) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard dead body found in a
well without a head, probably killed, Jawaja forest area is nearby |
|
|
S69 |
Dead Leopard |
11-Dec-17 |
Gulzar bagh, (Aligarh) |
Uniara (Tonk) |
Dawn |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard hit by train on Delhi
Mumbai tracks |
|
|
S70 |
Leopard sighting |
12-Dec-17 |
Birantiya kalan, (Sendra) |
Raipur (Pali) |
Dusk |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by farmer,
probably came for livestock tied nearby, rescue team came and leopard escaped |
|
|
S71 |
Dead Leopard |
13-Dec-17 |
Pachmata |
Nasirabad (Ajmer) |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard found injured near a
mountain, there were cuts on its front paw and body, probably attackedby
someone/some poacher, FD tranquilized it and after a while the leopard died,
state FD animals census marked zero number of leopards in the nearby forest
area. |
|
|
S72 |
Human attack |
14-Dec-17 |
Bhainsa kamed |
Khamnor (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Attacked and killed on a female
who was alone crossing the forest area in the dark |
Female; Adult |
|
S73 |
Leopard sighting |
22-Dec-17 |
Gogunda town |
Gogunda (Udaipur) |
Day |
Town; Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard entered meghwal basti
in gogunda and got spotted by many, people retaliated with sticks and
stones and leopard hid out in nearby cropfield, rescue is going on ,
conclusion of rescue is not given. |
|
|
S74 |
Dead Leopard |
26-Dec-17 |
Sendra |
Raipur (Pali) |
Night |
Open field |
Female |
|
Leopard killed in a road
accident |
|
|
S75 |
Captured |
29-Dec-17 |
Barna (Kaladera), Jawahar nagar |
Amber & Jaipur Urban
(Jaipur) |
Not given |
City |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
Captured in both cases, Leopard
prince came in jagatpura from jhalana |
|
|
T1 |
Leopard sighting |
01-Jan-16 |
Baba kuan forest, garhi range,
Jaulana |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Two leopards spotted by FD
worker nearan installed cage, a dog was also tied up in the cage |
|
|
T2 |
Dead Leopard |
01-Jan-16 |
Gothra |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Not given |
Forest |
Male |
|
Cause of death is not concluded |
|
|
T3 |
Dead Leopard |
02-Jan-16 |
sayra (rankapur) |
Desuri (Pali) |
Not given |
Not given |
Female |
|
Leopard died in a road accident |
|
|
T4 |
Human attack; Livestock attack |
03-Jan-16 |
Pheela (Girwa), Shyampura
(Jaisamand) |
Girwa & Salumbar (Udaipur) |
Day (Pheela), Night (Shyampura) |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a female while she was on herding activity
(Pheela), attacked on a male who was
guarding cropfield in the night (Shyampura) |
Female; Adult; Male; Adult |
|
T5 |
Human attack; Livestock attack |
05-Jan-16 |
Bemla, Barapal, Nal kagurha
(Bhindar), Gurli |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Night (Bemla, Nal ka gurha) |
Village; Mines |
Female with 2cubs (Bemla) |
Female leopard with two cubs attacked and killed
5 goats in livestock shyed in Aada talai falan, Bemla; Leopard killed
a cow in Gameti basti, Gurli; Leopard attacked a female in
mines area, Nal ka gurha (Bhindar); Leopard attacked a female in
Geengla falan; Leopard chased a female and a girl in barapal, all
human victims lived |
Female; Adult; Female; Young |
|
|
T6 |
Dead Leopard |
08-Jan-16 |
Rajsamand lake |
Rajsamand |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Last meal of aodog, no signs of
poachers |
|
|
T7 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
08-Jan-16 |
Tantiya, Kharodiya |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Dawn (Tantiya ), Dusk
(Kharodiya) |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard killed a livestock cow
in Tantiya, claimed to be though; two leopards spotted in a cropfield, they
later vanished away |
|
|
T8 |
Leopard sighting; Human attack |
09-Jan-16 |
Usar, Giriraj parikrama
(Nathdwara) |
Kumbhalgarh & Nathdwara
(Rajsamand) |
Dusk (GP) |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked and killed a
girl in Usr 3
days before, Leopard also spotted by many people at giriraj parikrama,
Nathwara |
Female; Young |
|
T9 |
Human attack |
10-Jan-16 |
Baroda |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Day |
Open field |
Not given |
|
attacked on a female while she was defecating |
Female; Adult |
|
T10 |
Human attack |
12-Jan-16 |
Nimbada talab, Kelwa |
Rajsamand |
Dusk |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a male who was
on a bike |
Male; Adult |
|
T11 |
Livestock attack |
13-Jan-16 |
Jatwara kalan |
Sawai madhopur |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow's calf |
|
|
T12 |
Captured |
19-Jan-16 |
Usar |
Kumbhalgarh (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Forest |
Female |
Human attack |
Probably the same leopard which
killed a girl in usar few days back |
|
|
T13 |
Leopard sighting |
24-Jan-16 |
Cement factory (Batherda),
Gopal temple (Sawai madhopur) |
Sawai madhopur |
Night (CF), Dusk ( GT) |
Cropfield; Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted at each place |
|
|
T14 |
Captured |
26-Jan-16 |
Usar |
Kumbhalgarh (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Forest |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
Another leopard captured by FD
in usr after the female leopard, release site is not mentioned, Villagers
were creating nuisance to see the leopard. |
|
|
T15 |
Rescued |
29-Jan-16 |
Nal |
Banswara |
Night |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard came out in search of
water and fallen in an open well, FD came but due to lack of resources could
not rescue the leopard for hours. |
|
|
T16 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
Jan-16 |
Rakampura |
Amet (Rajsamand) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked and killed 2 cow's
calf in a livestock shed early morning, also spotted by some villagers,
earlier recent attacks on goats and dogs too happened. |
|
|
T17 |
Captured |
Jan-16 |
Janawad |
Kumbhalgarh (Rajsamand) |
Dusk |
Village |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
Leopard captured by FD in
Janawad , third ina row, villagers have claimed to have seen 3 more leopards,
leopards residing in sugarcane fields |
|
|
T18 |
Human attack |
06-Feb-16 |
Dolpura bandh, Was |
Reodar (Sirohi) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard found in a cropfield in
dolpura bandh which attacked two males in there and escaped, later on found
again in a cropfield in waas villager where it again attacked on two FD
workers, All victims lived |
Male; Adult |
|
T19 |
Human attack |
09-Feb-16 |
Ratadiya |
Raipur (Pali) |
Night |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Attacked on two males while
they were on a bike |
Male; Adult; Male; Young |
|
T20 |
Livestock attack |
09-Feb-16 |
Kahela |
Sagwara (Dungarpur) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 2 goats |
|
|
T21 |
Human attack |
10-Feb-16 |
Van, kailashnagar |
Sheoganj (Sirohi) |
Day |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a shepherd on
herding activity |
Male; Not given |
|
T22 |
Livestock attack |
13-Feb-16 |
Manpura, Sumel |
Raipur (Pali) |
Not given |
Not given |
Not given |
|
Leopard claimed to be moving
around the mentioned villages and also killing livestock, Sendra forest is
nearby harboring many leopards. |
|
|
T23 |
Livestock attack; Human attack;
Captured |
14-Feb-16 |
Lalpura |
Raipur (Pali) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
Livestock attack |
Leopard (8 years old) entered
in a livestock shed in the night and killed 2 goats but spotted by the
owner and other villagers, so in defense the leopard attacked the owner and
after that villagers captured him in a room by lighting fire around on their
own and called FD, leopard rescued and taken to Jodhpur for medical care,
found to have injury on the head. |
Male; Adult |
|
T24 |
Leopard sighting |
15-Feb-16 |
Ratadiya |
Raipur (Pali) |
Night |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by a male who
was coming on a bike near bari valley |
|
|
T25 |
Livestock attack |
15-Feb-16 |
Bhoongra |
Ghatol (Banswara) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow |
|
|
T26 |
Livestock attack |
16-Feb-16 |
Dhayla, Raoji ka bariya, Bhagal
(Kelwa) |
Nathdwara, Bhim & Rajsamand |
Night (Dhayla, RKB), Dawn
(Kelwa) |
Village; Town |
Not given |
|
Attacked and tried to kill a
cow's calf but spotted (Dhayla), killed 4 goats in raoji ka bariya, killed a
cow in kelwa |
|
|
T27 |
Dead Leopard |
18-Feb-16 |
Sukh naka, Jojawar forest range
(Bhim) |
Girwa (Udaipur) & Bhim
(Rajsamand) |
Night (Jojawar) |
Cropfield; Forest |
Female cub (Both cases) |
Female leopard cub (1.5 years
old) found dead
in a well in a farm house in sukha naka; female leopard cub (2 years old)
got hit by a vehicle in jojawar forest range near bhim and died |
|
|
|
T28 |
Captured |
20-Feb-16 |
Sabla |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Not given |
Village |
Male |
Livestock attack |
Captured by FD, was killing
livestock in the area |
|
|
T29 |
Human attack |
21-Feb-16 |
Jhabra |
Shergarh (Jodhpur) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a female and 3 others in cropfields and
forest, capture ops are failing |
Female; Not given |
|
T30 |
Rescued |
22-Feb-16 |
Jaisinghpura khor |
Jaipur urban |
Dawn |
Village |
Female |
|
Found trapped ina poachers iron
trap near jogiyo ki dhani, spotted by villagers and rescued by FD |
|
|
T31 |
Leopard sighting |
23-Feb-16 |
Ramgarh |
Raipur (Pali) |
Day |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by villagers
which later vanished away, very poor FD resources in the area |
|
|
T32 |
Dead Leopard |
23-Feb-16 |
Amartiya |
Kumbhalgarh (Rajsamand) |
Not given |
Village |
Female |
|
Leopard killed in a road
accident |
|
|
T34 |
Rescued |
26-Feb-16 |
Banrol |
Rajsamand |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Cub |
|
Leopard cub ( 3 months old) found alone near
cropfields by villagers and rescued by them, later they informed FD about the
incident and will be released in the same forest later, separated from his
mother the previous night. |
|
|
T35 |
Dead Leopard |
26-Feb-16 |
Jhadoli |
Dhariyawad (Pratapgarh) |
Dawn |
Forest |
Female |
|
Leopard killed in a road
accident |
|
|
T36 |
Livestock attack; Rescued |
29-Feb-16 |
Kodwadiya nayaghar, Mawli road,
Rajsamand/ Viyal (Badgaon) |
Nathdwara (Rajsamand) &
Bargaon (Udaipur) |
Dawn (Rajsamand), Night
(Udaipur) |
Cropfield; Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard trapped in an iron trap
installed by poachers near a cropfield in kodwadiya, Nathdwara, Rescued by FD
on time and taken to udaipur for medical care; Leopard entered a goshala in
Vviyal village and attackedand killed 2 cows and a calf, escaped later
on without the kill. |
|
|
T37 |
Leopard sighting |
Feb-16 |
Rajaliya |
Nawa (Nagaur) |
Dusk |
Forest |
Not given |
|
|
|
|
T38 |
Livestock attack |
Feb-16 |
Degana |
Degana (Nagaur) |
Dusk |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Many sheep and goats killed by
leopard in theforest , owner was not there, happened nearby degana |
|
|
T39 |
Dead Leopard |
02-Mar-16 |
Salawali |
Neem ka thana (Sikar) |
Not given |
Open field |
Not given |
|
5-7 years old leopard found
dead, reason of death is inconclusive |
|
|
T40 |
Human attack |
04-Mar-16 |
Mandak ka gurha |
Khamnor (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked on a male and a female
inside the house and escaped |
Male; Adult; Female; Adult |
|
T41 |
Leopard sighting; Dead Leopard |
04-Mar-16 |
Asan (Garhi range); Saredi |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Female cub (Asan), Female with
cubs ( Saredi) |
Female leopard cub found dead in an
iron trap in a cropfield, wires slither throat, FD not sure yet whether trap
was installedfor a leopard (Asan) ; FD spotted a female leopard with her
cubs in Saredi just a few days back. |
|
|
|
T42 |
Human attack; Dead Leopard |
05-Mar-16 |
Bujhra |
Deogarh (Rajsamand) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
In afternoon, Leopard
attacked on a girl in the cropfield, she cried and family came started
beating the leopard with sugarcane sticks till death, victim girl lived. |
Male; Adult; Female; Young |
|
T43 |
Human attack |
05-Mar-16 |
Umri |
Mandal (Bhilwara) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked on a female
when she was working in the cropfield in the afternoon and then attacked on
another male who came in defense, both victims lived. |
Male; Adult; Female; Adult |
|
T44 |
Human attack |
05-Mar-16 |
Bansiya |
Simalwara (Dungarpur) |
Day |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked a wardpanch in
afternoon when he went for bathroom in the open behind atal sewa kendra,
bansiya, Later the leopard hid in the nearby wooden block and continuously
got pelted by stones from villagers, FD arrived late and big ruckus went
on, scared leopard attacked on a FD worker too, details of capture not given |
Male; Adult |
|
T45 |
Leopard sighting |
06-Mar-16 |
Gudla ; Barar |
Nathdwara & Bhim
(Rajsamand) |
Night & Dawn (Gudla), Night
(Barar) |
Cropfield; Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard spottedin a wheat
cropfield in midnight at gudla who was found in an abandoned house next
morning, villagers got curious to see by themselves causing risk of attack;
Leopard spotted by aa male outside his house when he went for a bathroom in
the midnight , nothing else happened. |
|
|
T46 |
Leopard sighting |
07-Mar-16 |
Maldeta |
Baytoo (Barmer) |
Day |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard entered in an under
construction home and spotted in the afternoon by the workers, FD informed
but arrived late and arranged a rescue operation till evening, leopard
vanished from the home. |
|
|
T47 |
Human attack |
08-Mar-16 |
Seengatwara |
Sarada (Udaipur) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked 3 males in the
afternoon in a wheat cropfield, victims lived, FD informed, came late and rescue
operation was too loose, Leopard vanished away. |
Male; Adult |
|
T48 |
Rescued |
09-Mar-16 |
Ghat ke balaji, Galata |
Jaipur urban |
Dawn |
Forest |
Cub |
|
Leopard cub spotted by two
civilians at ghat ke balaji who got separated from his mother, Rescued by FD
and taken to Jaipur zoo instead of searching for the mother. |
|
|
T49 |
Leopard sighting |
09-Mar-16 |
Seengatwara |
Sarada (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Probably the same leopard which
attacked 3 males earlier here |
|
|
T50 |
Livestock attack |
11-Mar-16 |
Samod |
Chomu (Jaipur) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Multiple livestock kill by
Leopard, Killed dog too, Pugmarks found near Police station. |
|
|
T51 |
Livestock attack |
12-Mar-16 |
Ramoravrali |
|
Night |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked and killed
livestock and pet dog too in the night, FD informed but totally
unreliable, None arrangements were made. |
|
|
T52 |
Human attack |
15-Mar-16 |
Tejafala (Salumbar) |
Salumbar (Udaipur) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked 4 villagers
who were working in the cropfields in the afternoon, Later attacked FD guard
too, all victims lived. |
Male; Adult |
|
T53 |
Human attack |
16-Mar-16 |
Nithaua |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Day |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard came into the village
in the afternoon and attacked few people in the ruckus, escaped away. |
Not given; Not given |
|
T54 |
Captured |
16-Mar-16 |
Shrimadhopur |
Sri madhopur (Sikar) |
Not given |
Town |
Not given |
Human attack |
found inside a house in
shrimadhopur |
|
|
T55 |
Livestock attack |
19-Mar-16 |
Padakhora |
Pratapgarh |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a goat and cow |
|
|
T56 |
Rescued |
22-Mar-16 |
Raiyana (Babakua forest) |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Cub |
|
Leopard cub (weeks old) found
in a corn cropfield in the morning by the villagers who got seaparated from his mother
previous night, babakua forest is just nearby, FD informed who waited for
mother to come and rescue her cub. |
|
|
T57 |
Human attack |
Mar-16 |
Goma ka bariya |
Mandal (Bhilwara) |
Dusk |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard entered in the village
in the evening and attacked on few people, ruckus created, later escaped into
the forest |
Male; Adult |
|
T58 |
Leopard sighting |
Mar-16 |
Gyangarh |
Mandal (Bhilwara) |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by a male and
then he instantly ran away inside a room, leopard was just standing there and
went back into the forest. |
|
|
T59 |
Livestock attack |
Mar-16 |
Mandal |
Mandal (Bhilwara) |
Not given |
Town |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow's calf |
|
|
T60 |
Leopard sighting |
03-Apr-16 |
Nareli |
Mandal (Bhilwara) |
Day |
Mines |
Two cubs |
|
|
|
|
T61 |
Leopard sighting |
04-Apr-16 |
Thurpal pahadi, Palthur-
dhendlawa |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Not given |
Open field |
Female with two cubs |
Female leopard with her 2 cubs was spotted by few
people on thurpal pahadi, they went near to scare her away and mother
attacked in defense. |
|
|
|
T62 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
05-Apr-16 |
Naka bazar bridge,
Seenghatwara; Maruwas |
Sarada & Mavli (Udaipur) |
Night (Maruwas) |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by people in
naka bazaar bridge at singhatwara for two consecutive days who killed a stray
cow over there, stones pelted by the people to scare it away; Leopard
killed a cow's calf in a livestock shed in the night |
|
|
T63 |
Leopard sighting |
07-Apr-16 |
Malka khera |
Asind (Bhilwara) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard entered in the village,
ruckus happened whereby many people pelted sticks and stones towards the
leopard and locked it inside a bathroom and called FD. |
|
|
T64 |
Human attack |
09-Apr-16 |
Khamnor |
Khamnor (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard sneaked in midnight in
a sugarcane cropfield and took a boy who was sleeping their with
his parents in the midnight, killed him, family woke up and spotted
leopard nearby the deadbody who immediately escaped away. |
Male; Infant |
|
T65 |
Livestock attack |
10-Apr-16 |
Badnor |
Asind (Bhilwara) |
Night |
Cropfield; Village |
Not given |
|
Two cases whereby leopard
killed a cow in a livestock shed and in another one killed a goat
in a cropfield in the night. |
|
|
T66 |
Leopard sighting |
10-Apr-16 |
Khamnor |
Khamnor (Rajsamand) |
Dusk |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard again spotted inside
the sugarcane cropfields, killed a boy a few days a back. |
|
|
T67 |
Livestock attack |
10-Apr-16 |
Anandsagar forest area |
Banswara |
Night |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Killed a goat |
|
|
T68 |
Human attack |
13-Apr-16 |
Magrawali thori |
Sarada (Udaipur) |
Dusk |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard entered in a livestock
shed but got noticed so villagers chased it to the mountains to beat and got
attackd by the leopard , none killed, past killings of livestocks happened. |
Male; Adult; Male; Young |
|
T69 |
Dead Leopard |
15-Apr-16 |
Bokarsel |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Not given |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Dead body found in a very poor
state, sex could not be identified |
|
|
T70 |
Human attack |
16-Apr-16 |
Harnawada shahji |
Chhipabarod (Baran) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked on a female
inside a eggplant cropfield while she was working, attacked few others and FD
after ruckus and escaped, none killed, FD failing to capture. |
Female; Adult |
|
T71 |
Leopard sighting |
18-Apr-16 |
Rathodo ka guda (Shishoda) |
Khamnor (Rajsamand) |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by the
villagers on nearby mountain in the morning, they tried to chase it and
beat it with sticks and stones, leopard escaped away. |
|
|
T72 |
Livestock attack |
19-Apr-16 |
Chat sardarpura |
Nasirabad (Ajmer) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a cow's calf |
|
|
T73 |
Leopard sighting; Livestock
attack |
28-Apr-16 |
Bagatpura |
Railmagra (Rajsamand) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by a villager
who was working in his fodder cropfield in the afternoon, other one
claimed that leopard eaten his two dogs and two cow's calves |
|
|
T74 |
Livestock attack |
28-Apr-16 |
Parda sakani |
Aspur (Dungarpur) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed a goat |
|
|
T75 |
Leopard sighting |
Apr-16 |
Ganoda |
Ghatol (Banswara) |
Dusk |
Village |
Not given |
|
Villagers scared away the
leopard which then escaped away |
|
|
T76 |
Human attack |
Apr-16 |
Tetiyadev forest area,
Kushalgarh |
Kushalgarh (Banswara) |
Day |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked on an old
shepherdwho was in the forest for herding activity, victim lived |
Male; Adult |
|
T77 |
Livestock attack |
Apr-16 |
Biliyawas |
Bhim (Rajsamand) |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Killed a goat, Owner was not
there |
|
|
T78 |
Dead Leopard |
Apr-16 |
Shripura forest chowki,
Chittorgarh road |
Night |
Forest |
Female |
|
Killed in a road accident |
|
|
|
T79 |
Livestock attack |
Apr-16 |
Bherukheda |
Deogarh (Rajsamand) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Female |
|
Female leopard attacked on a
goat in a cropfield and hid in a nearby canal for whole day, FD arrived very
late and while rescuing in the night, leopard ran away in to the forest |
|
|
T80 |
Human attack |
Apr-16 |
Navaghara |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked 2 males in a
sugarcane cropfield and hid in a tree, FD failing to capture and later on leopard escaped
into the forest. |
Male; Adult; Male; Young |
|
T81 |
Leopard sighting; Rescued |
04-May-16 |
Deoriya (Kunwariya)/ Hindustan
zinc road (Sakroda) |
Deogarh (Rajsamand), Girwa
(Udaipur) |
Not given |
Village; Forest |
Cub (Deoriya) |
|
Leopard cub (1 year old) fallen
in a well and later rescued by FD, will be released in the forests (not
mentioned) (Deoriya)/ Two leopards been spotted at Hindustan zinc road near
sakroda |
|
|
T82 |
Rescued |
06-May-16 |
Kankroli town |
Rajsamand |
Day |
Town |
Cub |
|
4 months old leopard cub came
at JK KANKROLI ROAD in the afternoon , got separated from the mother, FD
could not resuce the cub for hours, very unreliable. |
|
|
T83 |
Leopard sighting |
09-May-16 |
Taragarh- Happy valley |
Ajmer |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted at the mentione
area by two males with a goat catch, escaped away after getting noticed. |
|
|
T84 |
Livestock attack |
14-May-16 |
Teori |
Viratnagar (Jaipur) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked a cow's calf but got
spotted by villagers , they pelted stones and leopard ran away without the
calf |
|
|
T85 |
Dead Leopard |
17-May-16 |
Kachabali |
Bhim (Rajsamand) |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
|
Two males killed a leopard (1.5
years old) in huge retaliation , All theothers enjoyed it , clicked selfies
with the dead leopard, FD being questioned. |
|
|
T86 |
Rescued |
29-May-16 |
Lakarwas |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Female |
|
Female leopard (2 years old) found by the
villagers in a deep injured state, informed FD and rescued, taken to udaipur
biological park for medical care, Leopard was highly injured and famished. |
|
|
T87 |
Human attack |
04-Jun-16 |
Indali |
Jhunjhunu |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Attacked a male in millet
cropfield |
Male; Adult |
|
T88 |
Human attack; Captured |
06-Jun-16 |
Keharpura kalan |
Chirawa (Jhunjhunu) |
Not given |
Cropfield |
Not given |
Human attack |
FD teams from Jaipur and
sariska capture the same leopard from keharpura kalan in a millet
cropfield, reported to have attacked another male on second day |
Male; Not given |
|
T89 |
Human attack |
07-Jun-16 |
Dholiya |
Lasadiya (Udaipur) |
Night |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard sneaked in a house and
took a 7 year old girl while she was sleeping at midnight, girl died |
Female; Young |
|
T90 |
Livestock attack |
28-Jun-16 |
Akodara |
Vallabhnagar (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Killed 3 cows |
|
|
T91 |
Rescued |
29-Jun-16 |
Tonk |
Tonk |
Not given |
Not given |
Not given |
|
Leopard beaten badly by the
people till almost died, FD rescued and took it to jaipur zoo for medical care |
|
|
T92 |
Human attack |
Jun-16 |
Lauwa |
Salumbar (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked on a 8 year
old boy and his uncle came for defense, leopard escaped away. |
Male; Adult; Male; Young |
|
T93 |
Dead Leopard |
Jun-16 |
Jhali ka gurha |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard entered inside the
village in night, villagers instantly started pelting stones deeply injuring
the leopard and ultimately killed and torched it, FD totally unreliable,
did nothing |
|
|
T94 |
Dead Leopard |
Jun-16 |
Khole ke Hanumanji temple |
Jaipur urban |
Not given |
City |
Cub |
|
Leopard cub found dead in the
parking of mentioned area, no injuries
or disease found , probably died due to hunger and thirst, Jhalana is nearby |
|
|
T95 |
Dead Leopard |
Jun-16 |
Aamkha jhahira, Masalpur |
Karauli |
Not given |
Not given |
Not given |
|
Leopards found dead atboth the
respective places, FD being questioned as they did not have any information
regarding this, do not even have idea of cause of deaths |
|
|
T96 |
Human attack |
Jun-16 |
Jhanjhar mines, Kelwa |
Rajsamand |
Not given |
Town |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked on an old male
and escaped away, victim lived |
Male; Adult |
|
T97 |
Human attack |
Jun-16 |
Chitar ki nal (Kumbhalgarh) |
Kumbhalgarh (Rajsamand) |
Night |
Village |
Not given |
|
Attacked and killed a girl |
Female; Young |
|
T98 |
Rescued |
12-Jul-16 |
Bahadurpura |
Abu road (Sirohi) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Female |
|
Female leopard cub (1.5 years
old) fallen in a well in a cropfield, Rescued by FD team from udaipurand
taken to Mount abu for medical care, will be released in Abu forest. |
|
|
T99 |
Dead Leopard |
18-Jul-16 |
Sundarcha |
Rajsamand |
Not given |
Open field |
Male |
|
Male leopard ( 5years old) found dead in a
bad condition, All nails were gone so probably poached. |
|
|
T100 |
Livestock attack |
25-Jul-16 |
Thola ghata |
|
Night |
Village |
Adult with a cub |
|
Killed 16 goats |
|
|
T101 |
Leopard sighting |
Jul-16 |
Hareli (Karanpur) |
Garhi (Banswara) |
Dusk |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by villagers in
the evening, nothing happened, FD informed but no reply from their side |
|
|
T102 |
Rescued |
Jul-16 |
Leelera (Delwara) |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Dawn |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard hit by a vehicle on
highway, rescued and taken to sajjangarh biological park for medical care |
|
|
T103 |
Human attack; Captured |
21-Oct-16 |
Bhadach, Doomroli |
Thanagazi and Behror (Alwar) |
Dusk (Bhadach) |
Cropfield |
Not given |
Human attack |
Leopard attacked and killed a
female working in a cropfield in the evening in Bhadach; earlier a leopard
also killed a male in Doomroli again in a cropfield, that leopard was
captured by FD |
Male; Adult; Female; Adult |
|
T104 |
Human attack |
31-Oct-16 |
Aamka |
Thanagazi (Alwar) |
Dawn |
Open field |
Not given |
|
Leopard attacked a female while
she was defecating in the morning, victim lived |
Female; Adult |
|
T105 |
Livestock attack |
07-Nov-16 |
Sherawatwara, (Debari) |
Girwa (Udaipur) |
Night |
Town |
Leopard couple with two cubs |
Killed goats and cow's calf |
|
|
|
T106 |
Captured |
06-Nov-16 |
Narsingh basni |
Riyan badi (Nagaur) |
Dawn |
Cropfield |
Not given |
Leopard sight |
Leopardspotted by a male in
cropfield in the morning, rescue team came from jaipur and captured it, will
be released in Todgarh wildlife sanctuary |
|
|
T107 |
Rescued |
11-Nov-16 |
Aamka |
Thanagazi (Alwar) |
Not given |
Village |
Not given |
|
Highly injured leopard found in
aamka, rescued and taken to jaipur for medical care, probably beaten by
sticks and stones from villagers, head was totally injured |
|
|
T108 |
Leopard sighting |
26-Nov-16 |
Cement factory |
Sawai madhopur |
Night |
Power plant |
Leopard couple with two cubs |
|
|
|
|
T109 |
Captured |
26-Nov-16 |
Jatav basti bharatpur |
Bharatpur |
Dawn |
City |
Male |
Leopard sight |
Male leopard spotted by a male
in the morning while and leopard attacked in reflex, ruckus created and after
so much time rescued by FD and transferred to sariska tiger reserve. |
|
|
T110 |
Leopard sighting |
Nov-16 |
Duwawa |
Chiitorgarh |
Dusk |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by male in a
cropfield, leopard then hid in a tree and stayed there for hours, FD keeping
a check of any bad happening, nothing happened |
|
|
T111 |
Dead Leopard |
01-Dec-16 |
Khadki bridge, Sendra |
Raipur (Pali) |
Dawn |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Leopard (5 years old) found
dead with injuries over the body and lost nails, a goat dead body was also
lying nearby but not injured at all, probably killed by poachers/villagers. |
|
|
T112 |
Rescued |
22-Dec-16 |
Dasaliya forest range, Dabi |
Bundi |
Day |
Forest |
Male |
|
Male leopard (7 years old) found trapped in
an iron trap installed by poachers/hunters, rescued by FD and taken to kota
zoo for medical care. |
|
|
T113 |
Leopard sighting |
23-Dec-16 |
Rajasthan university |
Jaipur urban |
Dawn |
City |
Cub |
|
Rescued by FD |
|
|
T114 |
Leopard sighting |
23-Dec-16 |
Purani ghati, Shahabad |
Shahabad (Baran) |
Not given |
Forest |
Not given |
|
Multiple sights of leopard at
purani ghati of shahabad, good news for wildlife lovers and others, people
seems to be happy. |
|
|
T115 |
Leopard sighting |
30-Dec-16 |
Ajitgarh |
Sri madhopur (Sikar) |
Night |
Town |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted in CCTV camera
in the midnight at ajitgarh |
|
|
T116 |
Leopard sighting |
Dec-16 |
Sarangpura |
Vallabhnagar (Udaipur) |
Day |
Cropfield |
Not given |
|
Leopard spotted by villagers in
mustard cropfield, FD arrived and keeping a check, Leopard escaped
away |
|
|
T117 |
Dead Leopard |
Dec-16 |
Hameerpur (Bansur) |
Bansur (Alwar) |
Dusk |
Village |
Not given |
|
Leopard found dead, no injuries
on the body, villagers informed FD of leopard spotting few days back but
was not captured |
|
|
T118 |
Leopard sighting |
Dec-16 |
Sports complex, Rajasthan
University |
Dawn |
Residential area |
City |
|
|
|
|