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Residents person demanded accrued surveillance by the Forest Department pursuing the caller sighting of a stranded leopard successful an concern portion astatine Kannampalayam connected Tiruchi Road successful the Coimbatore suburb.
A leopard was caught connected the surveillance cameras of a cogwheel manufacturing institution connected the slope of River Noyyal connected November 12. The video got circulated a fewer days ago, pursuing which the Forest Department unit inspected the area.
However, residents from the locality accidental that fearfulness of the carnivore sighted successful their area, acold distant from forests, was inactive lingering.
A nonmigratory from Kannampalayam said radical from places specified arsenic Ravathur Pirivu, Kannampalayam, Manoj Nagar and Pappampatti Pirivu were inactive disquieted astir the leopard. There were vacant lands with bushes and ample tracts of cultivation plots astir these localities. People hesitated to task retired unsocial aboriginal successful the greeting and astatine nighttime aft the sighting of the leopard.
Another nonmigratory said that conservancy workers of Kannampalayam Town Panchayat person asked them to study if residents recovered their livestock, favored animals and stray dogs missing.
“Milkmen are coming precocious successful the greeting to farms for milking cows aft the sighting of the carnivore. The fig of radical going for greeting walks besides dwindled astatine a fewer places,” helium said.
Meanwhile, the Forest Department said that a surveillance camera ocular of a leopard loitering astir a shed down a location with the watermark ‘Sulur’ was a video from Thadagam conception of Coimbatore wood scope dated March 7, 2025. The aged video was circulated with its day and clip masked with the watermark by someone.
District Forest Officer N. Jayaraj said 8 camera traps were placed on the people of the Noyyal, which had bushes and vegetation connected the sides. The section suspected that the leopard could person reached Kannampalayam from Boluvampatti wood scope limits by traversing done the people of the river.
He added that the unit would patrol the people of the river, looking for nonstop oregon indirect grounds of the beingness of the stranded leopard.
