At a time the unabated deaths of elephants within the State have triggered an outrage among the many animal lovers, the restoration of a decomposed carcass of a leopard from Dudurkote forest beneath Hindol forest vary in Dhenkanal district on Wednesday has raised critical questions on the protection of untamed animals in Odisha.
Although the precise motive behind the loss of life of the leopard is but to be ascertained, it’s suspected that the massive cat might need died a few days again.
With the current loss of life, the forest vary has recorded two leopard deaths inside a yr. Earlier on 20 Could 2022, a leopard had died within the forest vary, sources knowledgeable.
In the meantime, a group of forest division officers has reached the spot and launched an investigation to establish the circumstances resulting in the loss of life of the leopard.
“We obtained info that the carcass of a leopard was mendacity. The leopard is believed to have died one or two days in the past. The precise motive behind the loss of life remains to be unknown and no traps had been additionally discovered on the spot. An investigation into the matter is on,” mentioned Prakash Chand Gogineni, Dhenkanal Divisional Forest Officer (DFO).
Not too long ago, a leopard cat and an elephant had been discovered useless at Similipal Nationwide Park in Mayurbhanj district. Whereas the leopard cat’s carcass was discovered on Monday, a decomposed carcass of an elephant with its tusks lacking was discovered within the nationwide park on Sunday.
It’s suspected that the elephant was killed by poachers and its tusks had been eliminated.
(Reported by Rajashree Satpathy, OTV)
