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.
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