It’s not just tigers that are disappearing fast, the fate of leopards is on the same path too. While India has been losing 400-450 leopards every year, there are many such deaths that go unreported as leopards do not enjoy the status of tigers in the country.

To push for better conservation strategies for the spotted big cat, Conservation Lenses & Wildlife (CLaW), an independent forum of wildlife enthusiasts from Maharashtra, will prepare a database of leopard deaths or poaching. It has created a Google form and appealed to citizens to fill it should they come across any leopard death. CLaW has already been documenting tiger deaths in the country. It plans to share its crowdsourced data about leopard fatalities with forest officials.