A three-and-a-half-year-old tigress, T-123, has been translocated from Pench Tiger Reserve to the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra as part of a conservation programme to strengthen the tiger population in the Western Ghats. This marks the third tigress shifted to Sahyadri under the initiative, following earlier translocations from Tadoba

A male leopard rescued from a residential area in Bhayandar in December and later released into Sanjay Gandhi National Park was found dead in the Yeoor forest. Forest officials said poaching has been ruled out and samples have been sent for laboratory tests to determine the exact cause of death