In yet another successful attempt, the Satara Forest Department with the help of the Pune-based NGO RESQ CT, reunited two leopard cubs with their mother. The cubs were found in a sugarcane field.

Range Forest Officer (RFO) Nivrutti Chavan told mid-day that on February 8 at around 1 pm, the sugarcane harvest was in progress at Padli village in Satara district when the workers found two cubs in the sugarcane field. The owner of the farm, Gorakhnath Dhane, and Amar Dhane immediately informed the department following which a team of the forest department along with the members of NGO RESQ CT immediately reached the spot.