Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Susanta Nanda has shared a video clip showing the rescue of a male leopard, which fell into an open well in a Maharashtra village.
Forest staff rescuing a male leopard from an open well in Maharashtra. Please cover open wells to avoid such trauma for the wild animals. Spread the ward 🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/JTFE4JlYIe
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) June 18, 2022
The clip shows forest department officials lifting the leopard out of the well in a cage that was lowered into the well with ropes for him to get inside.
The traumatised leopard growls ferociously as he is seen charging at the cage to get out as soon as he can.
Mr Nanda advised people to cover open wells to prevent wild animals from falling into such dangerous situations. Such incidents appear to be on the rise as last week, too, a leopard had fallen into a 45-feet-deep well in Junnar in Maharashtra’s Pune. Wildlife SOS shared a clip of the rescue operation last week in which villagers had lowered a cot into the well to rescue the leopard.
