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Leopard attacks: Maharashtra deploys AI tracking, 200 cages in villages
Updated On: 15 November, 2025 08:59 AM IST | Pune | Archana Dahiwal
AI alerts, cage traps, and sterilisation programme part of new strategy to curb big cat threat; the incidents had sparked anger among residents, who accused the forest department of negligence and staged a roadblock protest
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Two hundred cages will be deployed immediately to trap leopards entering human settlements, with 1000 more to be procured. Captured leopards will be relocated to dense forests. Pic/By Special Arrangement
Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik on Wednesday visited Pimperkhed village in Shirur taluka, where recent leopard attacks have claimed multiple lives.
The incidents had sparked anger among residents, who accused the forest department of negligence and staged a roadblock protest. The protest was withdrawn after Pune District Collector Jitendra Dudi intervened.
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