WATCH: Forest Dept. officials rescue leopard from deep well in Maharashtra village

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Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Susanta Nanda has shared a video clip showing the rescue of a male leopard, which fell into an open well in a Maharashtra village.</p>
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Forest staff rescuing a male leopard from an open well in Maharashtra. Please cover open wells to avoid such trauma for the wild animals. Spread the ward 🙏🙏 <a href="https://t.co/JTFE4JlYIe">pic.twitter.com/JTFE4JlYIe</a></p>
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) <a href="https://twitter.com/susantananda3/status/1538162191324413953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The clip shows forest department officials lifting the leopard out of the well in a cage that was lowered into the well with ropes for him to get inside.</p>
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The traumatised leopard growls ferociously as he is seen charging at the cage to get out as soon as he can.</p>
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Mr Nanda advised people to cover open wells to prevent wild animals from falling into such dangerous situations. Such incidents appear to be on the rise as last week, too,  a leopard had fallen into a 45-feet-deep well in Junnar in Maharashtra’s Pune. Wildlife SOS shared a clip of the rescue operation last week in which villagers had lowered a cot into the well to rescue the leopard.</p>