Letter: Forest officials along with Hanumantiya villagers in the district but have camped on the outskirts of the village since Friday night after a leopard killed a three-year-old girl.
Apart from human supervision, the forestry department also uses a trap camera to find leopards that are difficult to understand.
On Monday, the Ministry of Forestry installed more trap cameras and also increased the size of the supervision team.
The team will camp in the village for the next seven days to find leopards.
Anand Kumar, the Deputy Forest Conservator, but, said: “At first we have set 10 cages and as much as possible night trap cameras.
On Monday five, a trap camera again installed in places where Pugmark Leopard was found.
This village is located on the riverbank Jhakri and surrounded by sugar cane farms.
Our team tries its best to save leopards and we hope it will soon be locked up.
“” The Ministry of Forestry also asked local residents of the nearest villages to tell us if they get instructions on big cats, “he added .
Sanjay Gamit, Sarpanch of the Hanumantiya Group Gram Panchayat said: “This is not the first time that the leopard is seen here.
About five years ago a leopard was seen in the village.
It was saved after training a week by the Ministry of Forestry.
At that time there were no casualties But this time a little girl was killed.
This village has around 260 homes and villagers conducting night patrols and helping forest staff.
“The first box of compensation cases after new notifications recently Government Gujarat issued a new notification that increased compensation for victims of attacks by animals wild.
KIN from those who were killed in an attack by wild animals now get Rs 5 lakh rather than Rs 4 Lakh.
The three-year-old Vaishnavi family, who was killed by leopards, received compensation according to the new rules.
A forest official said: “The Vainishnivi family is Gujarat’s first family who receives compensation according to the new rules.
On Monday the District School but, HK Vadhvaniya has submitted a check to the Vaishnivi family.” Leopard roaming boxes around the village since the last 10 days of the forest officials said that The leopard wandered around and around the village for a long time.
“Around Pugmark, 10 days of leopard is found in the area.
The animal might live near the village for some time now.
It is possible that the leopard has killed several animals near the village but no one pays attention to him,” said an official of the forest department.
The box way of the camera trap works a trap camera proved to be a modifier of the game in animal rescue operations.
This is a digital camera, equipped with Night Vision, which is automatically activated by any movement within its reach.
It is equipped with a motion sensor that uses infrared light beams.
Has a 180 degree vision, covering 10-15 meters.
Previous rescue operations only depend on a trained rescue team to follow and track animals.
It’s hard to track nocturnal animals but now it becomes easier thanks to a trap camera.