In a rescue operation that lasted 2 hours, an approximately 4-year-old male leopard was rescued by Wildlife SOS & the Maharashtra Forest Department from a 35-feet-deep well in Narayanwadi located in Junnar division of Pune district, Maharashtra.Leopard in well<\/p>\n
When Wildlife SOS and the Forest Department heard about the emergency, they rushed over to the rescue.<\/p>\n
The villagers lowered a metal plank down the well in the meantime to give the leopard a place to stay afloat before help arrived.<\/p>\n
When the rescue team finally arrived, they lowered a trap cage down into the well, and the scared and distressed leopard immediately climbed inside to safety.<\/p>\n
Kartick Satyanarayan, CEO and co-founder of Wildlife SOS, said, \u201cThis is the second incident this week where we have assisted the Forest Department with the timely rescue of a leopard from an uncovered well.<\/p>\n
The issue cannot be taken lightly. It is not just leopards, a species protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, that are vulnerable to these wells, but also several other species that may fall in accidentally, with potentially fatal results.\u201d<\/p>\n