It's a cub season in India ; Two days bay Rescued in one day
With three back to back leopard rescue operations, it’s been quite the action-packed week for Wildlife SOS & the Maharashtra Forest Dept. It’s cub season for leopards and in the latest incident, the teams rescued two baby leopards on the same day. Both cubs were later happily reunited with their respective mothers.

On Monday evening, sugarcane farmers in Vadgaon Anand village had quite the surprise when they stumbled upon a lone leopard cub, while out harvesting their crops. With the onset of harvest season in the state of Maharashtra, it is not uncommon for farmers to be exposed to young leopard cubs taking up shelter amidst the tall, dense vegetation. The Forest Department and the Wildlife SOS team operating out of the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Center were soon alerted to this incident and both teams immediately geared up for the rescue mission.

En-route to the location, the Wildlife SOS rescue team led by senior veterinarian Dr. Ajay Deshmukh received a call about a similar situation that had arisen at Golegaon village, in Junnar. The villagers had sighted a leopard cub on the periphery of the sugarcane field, adjoining their village. Consequently, the team split up midway to carry out both rescues simultaneously. Dr. Ajay Deshmukh headed to Vadgaon, while Wildlife SOS veterinary assistant, Mahendra Dhore was deployed to Golegaon.

On-site medical examinations confirmed that both leopard cubs were healthy and ready to be reunited with their mothers. The cubs were carefully placed inside safe boxes, close t