Members of Wildlife SOS and staff of Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre prepare for cubs to be reunited with their mother

The past year has been good for leopard conservation in Maharashtra. The Pune divisional forest department and the NGO Wildlife SOS, have in the span of a year reunited 22 leopard cubs with their mothers. The Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre (MLRC) in Junnar, around 78 kilometres from Pune, is one of India's largest nursing and care centres for leopards, where the Forest Department of Maharashtra has been working with Wildlife SOS for the conservation of leopards since 2007.