Samvad Sutra, Jagran Lakhimpur. The increasing movement of tigers, leopards and incidents of hunting in the buffer zone of Dudhwa National Park may be scaring the common people, but the changed strategy of the Forest Department is helping to a great extent in capturing the wildlife in cages.
One tiger and four leopards have been trapped in cages in 15 days. After being caught, all of them are being released into the forests away from the population. Due to the capture of these aggressively attacking tigers and leopards, incidents of human-wildlife conflict have also stopped.
The population of leopards in the buffer zone has increased almost two and a half times in the last three years. According to the Wildlife Census 2025 report, 93 leopards were found in the buffer zone in the year 2022, which has increased to 275 in the year 2025. These leopards hiding in the fields are coming out during the peeling of sugarcane. Leopards are targeting children and cattle.
The Bafarjan administration is now moving ahead with the old tactics and formulating a new strategy to tighten the noose on leopards. The forest department team becomes active only after receiving information from villagers about leopard being seen at some place. To prevent the leopard from attacking, forest workers are being kept on vigil for three days.
After this the cage is being installed at the exact place where the leopard is roaming. Forest workers are continuously monitoring the goat by tying it in a cage. The best thing is that the buffer zone administration is continuously increasing the number of cages. On getting information about the movement, the officials immediately put up the cage.
Its positive results are also emerging. In the last 15 days, a leopard has been captured in a cage in Devipurwa of Palia, Panditpurwa of Dhaurahara, Naurangabad of North Nighasan and on Friday in Padhua of Dhaurahara range. A tiger was caught in a cage in Sampoornanagar on Thursday night.
The operation of the Forest Department has brought relief to the common people, but there are still big challenges before the officials. Kirti Chaudhary, Deputy Director of Buffer Zone, says that due to proper exchange of information, monitoring of forest workers and cooperation from the common people, leopards are being caught continuously. Efforts are being made to catch as many leopards as possible and release them in the forest away from the population.
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