JHAPA, APRIL 21
Locals of Buddhashanti Rural Municipality in Jhapa district have been terrorised after a leopard started killing cattle on a daily basis.
Member of Adarsha Community Forest Users Committee Sitaram Bastola said the leopard stayed inside the community forest during the day and entered the village in the evening.
The wild cat has been attacking and killing cattle, including goat, cow and pig for the past two days.
He said that the leopard also killed a goat and calf belonging to Bhojraj Bastola and Deepak Bastola last night.
"We have knocked the door of the Division Forest Office and police administration after the leopard menace, but in vain," locals complained.
Officer at the Division Forest Office Om Bhattarai said they were in the process of preparing a trap to take the leopard into control.
He said they had started to making the cage immediately after the locals informed them about the leopard menace. "We will immediately manage a cage and take the wild cat under control," he added.
The Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve has installed automatic cameras in some community forests of Mechinagar and Buddhashanti rural municipalities to track the movement of elephants, leopard, tiger, among other wild animals.
Along with the leopard, a wild elephant is also long been striking terror in the area. The elephant that usually enters the village when crops start to ripen consumed and destroyed local Kul Prasad Paudel's maize on five kattha land last night alone. It also trampled and damaged maize and spring rice crop belonging to Sabitra Dangal.
A version of this article appears in the print on April 22, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
