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Maharashtra’s Forest Minister Ganesh Naik has said the State authorities had asked Reliance Foundation to accommodate leopards astatine its Vantara installation successful Gujarat's Jamnagar, and 25 large cats person already been relocated there.
The colonisation of leopards has risen 4 times successful 10 years. The State, which had 101 tigers seven-eight years back, present has 444, Mr. Naik said successful the legislative assembly connected Monday portion speaking connected the amendment of the Wildlife Protection Act arsenic applied to Maharashtra.
The amendment measure was passed by the Assembly past week and cleared by the assembly connected Monday (March 23, 2026).
"Twenty-five leopards person been sent to Vantara. We made a request (to instrumentality the leopards) due to the fact that 150 leopards were trapped successful Pune district," Mr. Naik said. The authorities authorities has signed an statement to translocate 50 leopards to Vantara.
The Wildlife Protection Act amendment has been brought due to the fact that the main wildlife warden, successful cases of human-leopard conflict, cannot instrumentality steps for colonisation absorption oregon translocation of large cats nether conception 12 without support from the Union government.
This highly regulated, cumbersome process is time-consuming and delays effectual technological absorption and translocation of leopards, arsenic good arsenic efforts to woody with human-leopard struggle successful the state, Mr. Naik said.
The measure volition alteration the main wildlife warden to instrumentality indispensable steps for the technological absorption of leopards, including translocation and colonisation management, with the support of the authorities government.
Mr. Naik said the wood section volition person a leopard and tiger safari successful each territory successful the state.
There is simply a misunderstanding owed to an amendment to the bill, and asserted that nary support volition beryllium fixed to anyone to termination leopards.
