So this act of kindness happened this Sunday & people behind it are ResQ Charitable Trust. Read the whole story here right from the horse’s mouth! “3 month old Leopard Cub reunited with its mother after falling down a 30 foot well! A small female leopard cub was discovered by a local in Pargaon, Daund struggling to stay afloat in a deep well. They informed the Forest Department who called our RESQ team to help out…and within 20 mins, we packed up all our technical wildlife rescue gear and were on our way!
We got her out of the well – but that was only the first part of the rescue. What was the future of this cub without her mother? We couldn’t just release her there in the broad daylight with no sign of her mother around when she was so small. The Forest Department and our team decided it would be best to take her to the RESQ Wildlife Centre for a day and in the meantime track her mothers whereabouts in order to aim for a reunion soon. While people fear leopards, we were so pleasantly amazed that the locals there understood the consequences of separating a mother and her child and told us that they would help and fully cooperate to ensure the two were reunited!
Our team tracked the mother within 24 hours and planned a monitored yet manual reunion. At dusk, we set up a live 360 camera near the wooden crate that we put the cub in, set up a manual pulley attached by a rope that could be operated from inside our our vehicle which was parked at a distance away.. We were all nervous whether the mother would show up for her cub, but within 20 minutes of us going silent and waiting in the car for her, she showed up and starting calling out to her cub!!
As soon as we detected her presence in our cameras, we pulled the rope, opened the cage and the cub ran to it’s mother…and they disappeared into the sugarcane fields in a flash! We were absolutely elated when we saw the mother and cub get together.. and we hope watching this video brings you the same joy!”
-Neha Panchamiya Founder, RESQ CHARITABLE TRUST
