Leopards to roam in outskirts of Mumbai

Mumbai is India's largest city with a population of more than 16 million people. Just think, if leopards start roaming in the outskirts of the city. Do you think it's a weird idea but something similar is going to be there as per one report in Daily India. As per the report 47 leopards are to be released back into the wild - on the outskirts of Mumbai as per the Authorities in India. Now how safe it shall be is questionable.

It is going to happen as Bombay has expanded beyond its limits & now it surrounds a national wild park that was once far from the city limits. In this untouched jungle of the park, Wild leopards thrived earlier, but as the city expanded, leopards started coming into the streets, walked into the suburbs and attacked and even killed the residents over there. Ferocious leopards earlier killed 12 people in one month, among them was a four-year-old girl who was dragged from, outside her home & was taken into the jungle.

In 2004, Maharashtra state Authorities then caught hold of the leopards & once they were caught, the killings stopped. Now the Federal Environment Ministry in New Delhi has ordered the release of the leopards back into the wild. Now authorities are going to use a technique,'Electronic Tagging' generally used for the offenders, where an electromagnetic chip shall be implanted on each leopard's tail. In future, after releasing the Cats, if one does kill again somebody, then cats shall be tracked down and shall be recaptured. Now how successful this technique shall be is debatable but certainly it shall pose grave danger to the people living in the vicinity of the wild park.

Picture Credit: wii.gov.in

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