Tuesday 28 May 2019

Gujarat woman killed by Leopard.

A 52-year-old woman has died after being attacked by a Leopard on Monday 27 May 2019. Shardaben Vavaiya was apparently attacked in her own home while sleeping alone in the village of Kankchiyala in Junagadh District, with the animal seizing her by the throat and attempting to drag be from the building, before abandoning her body, Officials from the Indian Forest Service have been called in and are attempting to capture the Leopard. This is the third fatal Leopard attack in Junagadh District in the last two months, with the other victims being another woman and a girl.

A Leopard in the Gir National Park in Gujarat. Dhaval Vargiya/Wikimedia Commons.

Leopards are considered to be Vulnerable under the terms of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species, with the Indian subspecies, Panthera pardus fusca, considered to be particularly vulnerable due to India's rapidly rising Human population, which has resulted in agriculture and other Human activities expanding into many former wilderness areas. For this reason the Indian Forest Service usually try to relocate Leopards that come into conflict with Humans to more remote areas, preferably within national parks, though the extent to which local people co-operate is variable.

See also...

https://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2019/05/himachal-pradesh-man-arrested-with-two.htmlhttps://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2019/05/rajasthan-man-killed-by-leopard.html
https://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2019/03/kashmir-farmer-injured-by-leopard.htmlhttps://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2019/03/gujarat-man-wakes-to-find-crocodile.html
https://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2018/12/leopard-captured-after-attacks-on.htmlhttps://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2018/04/woman-attacked-by-leopard-in-rajasthan.html
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