The forest department and Pune-based NGO RESQ CT saved the life of a leopard cub that had been injured by glass shards installed on the boundary wall of a bungalow near Pawna lake. The six-to-seven-month-old leopard was first spotted at 8 am on January 16 on the wall of a farmhouse in Morve village near the Tung Fort at Pawna dam in Pune district.

Around an hour-and-a-half later, the RESQ team received a call from Range Forest Officer (RFO) Hanumant Jadhav from the Pune forest department’s Maval range and Jigar Solanki and Nilesh Garade from the organisation Wildlife Rescuers of Maval, asking for assistance in rescuing the big cat. A RESQ team immediately mobilised and the team, led by Tuhin Satarkar, director of wildlife management at RESQ CT, Pune, arrived at 11.50 am.