Dharwad: The Ministry of Forestry intensified Leopard searches that have deviated into the field of sugar cane near Kavalager Village near Dharwad City on Friday with the Deputy Forest Conservator (DCF) Yashpal Ksheersagar.
The search team consisting of the Ministry of Forestry personnel from Dharwad, Haveri and Gadag District are deployed throughout the village, which members oversee carefully for signs of leopards.
The cage has been placed throughout the village to trap big cats.
Yashpal told Toi that the search team searched for leopards throughout Thursday night, but the big cat managed to avoid them by escaping to the field of sugar cane.
“We have confirmed that the leopard is in the field, and we watch signs of big cats.
We have found a sign of Pug from the leopard.
We have found animal waste, which we have sent to the center of cellular and molecular biology in Hyderabad, to ensure Whether this is the same leopard who was seen in Hubballi.
We respond without delay when the villagers told us about leopards.
The video captured on the drone camera confirmed the presence of a large cat, “Yashpal said.
On Friday morning, members of Govanakoppa Gram Panchayat told the search team that he saw a leopard entering the banana plantation owned by Basavaraj Hubballi, but when the search team tried to verify his apiple, it was found that it was a hoax.
On Wednesday night, members of the Shivappa UPPAR family in Kavalager saw big cats outside their farm’s homes and signaled the Ministry of Forestry.
The son of UPPAR Maruti said that he saw the leopard at around 4:30 p.m.
on Wednesday outside the family farmhouse.
“The animal stood near the sugar cane fields we were not too far from our farmhouse.
The big cat saw our cattle, our lamb.
Our children played in front.
I brought children in the house, and immediately told my father .
When he came out, the leopard was still there, and it rushed into the field when he raised the alarm, “said Maruti Toi.