According to the Division Forest Office, 11 people were killed during the same period, including 8 by leopards, 2 by tigers, and 1 by elephants.
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In Bardiya, 11 people have lost their lives in wild animal attacks since last Shrawan till Jestha 26. During the same period, 11 people have been killed by leopards, 8 by tigers and 1 by elephants, according to the Division Forest Office.
During the same period, 13 people have been injured by leopards and 2 by rhinoceroses, said Ram Gopal Chaudhary, Senior Forest Officer of the Division Forest Office, Bardiya. ‘So far this fiscal year, 17 people have been injured in leopard attacks and 18 people have been injured in leopard attacks,’ he said. ‘In the last fiscal year 081/082, 4 leopards, one rhinoceros and one elephant died in attacks.’ The technical team of the Division Forest Office, National Nature Conservation Trust and Bardiya National Park had taken control of 6 problematic leopards.
Even after the problematic leopards were taken into custody, the fear has not subsided. Leopards have occasionally entered villages in municipalities including Gularia, Rajapur, Madhuban, and Barbardiya.
As the number of tigers in the Katarniaghat Wildlife Reserve and Bardiya National Park, which are connected to the Indian border with Bardiya, has increased, leopards have been entering villages through community forests. Ajit Tumphahamphe, head of the National Trust for Nature Conservation, Bardiya, said that leopards enter villages outside the forest in the hope of finding easy food.
‘Out of fear of tigers in the park, leopards enter villages through the intermediate zone. They eat goats and other items kept in villages and attack people when they do not get food,’ he says.
Bardiya National Park has stated that there is no exact number of leopards in Bardiya as there is no census of leopards in Bardiya. According to the latest count, there are 125 tigers in Bardiya National Park.
