DH News Service, Mudigere:

A leopard which fell trap into a noose die despite continued efforts to save it by the Officials of Forest Department.

By Sanjay Gubbi

When a leopard strays, if the crowd is dispersed, the animal escapes and causes no harm to anyone.

Newspapers yesterday were filled with the story of a leopard killed by police and mob at Mysore. In terms of column space it overtook the fall of major financial institutions in the US. Coincidentally, there were two such incidents in Ramanagar and Udupi the same day. Was it the best way to handle the situation? Could we have reduced injury to people and rescued the animal?

DH News Service, Mysore:

As many as nine persons including a photo-journalist were injured when a leopard attacked them at K C Layout on the foothills of Chamundi, in Mysore, on Tuesday.

All the injured are out of danger. However, the leopard succumbed to internal bleeding at around 2 pm.

JAKARTA (AFP) - A new population of rare leopard has been found living in thick forests on the Indonesian half of Borneo island, a researcher said Thursday.

Camera traps in Sebangau National Park in Central Kalimantan province have snapped pictures of two adult male Bornean clouded leopards in an area once decimated by logging, British zoologist Susan Cheyne said.

Reshma and Raja are just two more casualties of the current tumult in Jammu and Kashmir, but they are unlikely to make too many headlines given that they were mere animals. However, the fact that they were victims of the

CHALAKKUDY: Officials of the Vazhachal Divisional Forest Office seized the skin of a leopard and arrested Arjunan, 37, hailing from Upper Sholayar in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday.

The Vazhachal Range Officer said that following information received by the Ernakulam Flying Squad DFO, an investigation was conducted. During the investigation, it was understood that a person residing at Valpara under the Vazhachal had handed over the skin to Arjunan for sale.

Mumbai, July 16 Park authorities happy but also maintain this is just preliminary round, chief conservator of forests and wildlife experts will do final scrutiny Twenty-four leopards and a five per cent increase in the animal count: reads the preliminary wildlife census report for 2008 released by the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), and from the looks of it, it seems bright.

Hyderabad, July 4: The city task force police on Friday arrested two persons who were attempting to sell leopard skin in the city. B. Ram Reddy, 30 a native of Kurnool and N. Shiva Prasad, 35, a native of Prakasam district were arrested. Ram Reddy, a farmer trapped the leopards in his field located near Nallamala Forest. The accused and his broker, Shiva Prasad, were offering to sell the two skins at Rs 2 lakh each.

Iranian and Western wildlife experts are working together to save rare cheetahs from extinction in this arid, mountainous region, despite a nuclear row between their governments.

Jorhat: It's a reversal of roles in the man-animal conflict. Villagers at Koibartagaon in Assam's Sivasagar district were on Monday caught while preparing to eat an eight-month-old leopard. This is not the first time such an incident has taken place in upper Assam. Since April, the state, which has some of the country's finest animal sanctuaries, has seen people killing and eating leopards in revenge for their cattle being killed by the animals.