After learning from their counterparts and an NGO that have reunited many lost leopard cubs with their mothers in Junnar, Forest Department (FD) officials are trying to repeat the feat in Nashik. After reuniting three leopard cubs with their mothers in the past few months, they are trying hard to reunite a female cub with its mother for three days.

The Nashik FD has learnt the process to reunite lost cubs with their mothers through FD officials in Ahmednagar and the NGO Wildlife SOS. On Saturday the FD received a call that a leopard cub had fallen into a well in Gajarwadi village in Niphad near Nashik. The five-month-old cub had fallen into the well of Prashant Pund who informed them.