In the last six months, there have been five incidents of human-leopard conflict in Haryana; officials are finally attempting to understand why the big cats are leaving the forests and straying into towns and villages
Increasing instances of leopards straying into inhabited areas has prompted the Haryana Forest Department to seek a detailed study from the Wildlife Institute of India on why wild animals, especially big cats, are leaving the safety of the forests to enter populated areas.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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