A team of wildlife officials managed to rescue a nilgai that was trapped in a river canal in a village near Mandi Dabwali, Haryana.

A passerby spotted the distressed animal and alerted the team at Azad Yuva Club. A rescue team were sent to the spot and managed to tie a rope around the animal.

Filmed by the club's Secretary Raman Deep, footage from November 8 shows the team pulling the 250-kilogram nilgai from out of the canal.

Once out of the water, the team released the animal.

Deep said: "The nilgai come to graze on the farms here but get chased by the village dogs. They fall into the canal while fleeing.”

Over the last three years, the Azad Yuva Club has saved about 400 animals from the waters.

A team of brave wildlife officials risked their life to pull out a bluebuck from a river canal in northern India.

A passerby saw the drowning animal and alerted members of Azad Yuva Club in Lakhuana village near Mandi Dabwali. A rescue team went to the spot and saw the bluebuck being swept away by the current.

Two of them jumped into water and slipped a rope around the neck and legs of the animal, which was then hauled up.

It was a dangerous mission as the rescuers had to get close to harness the bluebuck. The 250-kg animal,
which thrashing in the water desperately, could have crushed them.

The secretary of the Azad Yuva Club, Raman Deep, said: “The bluebucks come to graze on the farms here but get chased by the village dogs. They fall into the canal while fleeing.”

The Azad Yuva Club has saved about 400 animals from the watery grave in the last three years.

Bluebuck (Boselaphus tragocamelus), the the largest Asian antelope is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent.



Raman Deep