Five Leopard Cubs Burnt Alive As Farmers Put Field On Fire To Kill A Snake

Human-animal conflicts have been on the rise in India especially in the peripheries of forests. With the increase in population, the demand for more agricultural land remains unabated. And more often than not, it is the forest that pays the price to make way for additional farmlands.

This leaves the animals vulnerable as they increasingly stray into ‘human settlements’ in search of food and get killed for ‘encroaching’.

In a tragic incident of human-animal conflict, five leopard cubs aged just 10 days old were charred to death in Maharashtra’s Pune after farmers set fire to a sugarcane farm.

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