Forest department employees rescued a leopard from the Sishugram Red Cross organisation near IIT Guwahati on February 3, 2022.
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After being observed, the leopard will be released into its natural habitat.
Under its divisional competence, the NKF Division has also begun the process of conducting a leopard counting census.
North Kamrup Forest Division (NKF Division) has begun an exclusive leopard counting census in Assam’s forest and non-forest areas for the first time.
The leopard counting census has begun in Amingaon, Kamrup district, where leopards have high densities.
It began on January 31, 2022. Leopards will be counted using the camera trapping approach.
In the Amingaon area, 50 cameras would be deployed at Sila Reserve Forest, NIPER, Changsari, AIIMS, and other locations.