Leopard walks 80 km to Ulhasnagar

Collared as part of a study in Ahmednagar’s sugar fields, the young male leopard has now made a virgin green patch in Ulhasnagar his home; locals worried about new guest

A camera-trap image of the leopard walking through a forest

In an event that has delighted the Maharashtra Forest Department, 12 years after a collared leopard, Ajoba, was recorded walking 120 km from Pune to SGNP, a full grown male leopard that was radio collared in Ahmednagar district in September, has walked 80 km to Ulhasnagar.  Interestingly, the big cat also swam across the Ulhas river and crossed the tracks on the Mumbai-Pune railway line. 

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