BARIPADA: Forest officials on Monday seized a leopard hide and caught three persons including a poacher red-handed while they were trying to sell it at Balikhoni village under Bangiriposi range here.

Female leopard Xudum drags her food high up in a tree to keep it safe from scavengers.

Videos shared by the villagers show the leopard gripping an iron bar with its jaws and pushing it back and forth until it ...

STF personnel seized a medium-sized leopard hide. The accused was identified as Narayan Majhi (28), a resident of Paribandha near Dapala under Manmunda police station limits, sources said.

Carrie Arnold, carnivores team leader at the zoo, said: “Irina was a very playful snow leopard, always stalking her keepers and playing hide and seek with us. “She was incredibly strong willed ...