Forest Department continues to track leopard in Erode district

With a leopard sighted precocious astatine the Marayeepalayam hillock successful Sathyamangalam taluk, the Forest Department is carrying retired round-the-clock efforts to hint the carnal that strayed retired of the forest.

Villagers archetypal spotted the leopard and alerted the Vilamundi Forest Range Office successful the Sathyamangalam Division of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve. A Forest Department squad visited the country and confirmed the sighting. Three cages and 5 camera traps were installed, and drone surveillance was intensified. A squad of 15 unit members and 10 villagers combed the hillock, but the carnal could not beryllium located.

Villagers assertion that the leopard had moved retired of the Vilamundi wood scope and person urged the officials to seizure and relocate it deeper into the forest. However, officials said the carnal mightiness person temporarily shifted to the hillock owed to immoderate disturbance successful its situation and apt returned connected its own. “The carnal has not been spotted successful the past 3 days,” an authoritative said. The Forest Department continues to show the hillock and surrounding areas.