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Last Year, One Leopard Died Every Day, This Year 218 Have Died In Just Four Months So Far

 

9 July 2019


Days back the news of a leopard being mercilessly killed by villagers in Assam was just one anecdote of how colossal, the problem of human-animal conflict has become; and the real extent of the problem would our jaw dropped in despair.

India has lost at least 218 leopards till April 2019 and this number is more than 40 per cent of the total number of leopards death recorded last year.

In 2018, at least 500 leopards were either killed or died of other reasons according to the data kept by the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), non-profit organisation which has been keeping record for leopards deaths since 2009.


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