PNP which is called Papikonda National Park , is an overwhelming region secured with soggy deciduous forst , has turned out to be home for the leopard cat (Prinailurus bengalensis) in the Eastern Ghats. The 1,012.86 sq km national park is on the two sides of stream Godavari in the northern Eastern Ghats. Of the 13 ensured woodlands in Andhra Pradesh, the panther feline has been located just in the Papikonda National Park.
Incredibly, two leopard cat have been located lately amid our field think about through camera traps in three frameworks in the Chintoor Division in the PNP, Chintooru Divisional Forest Officer P. Saibaba revealed to The Hindu. Nearness of one youthful leopard cat has been recorded inside the national park, and different has been located along the recreation center’s outskirt in the hold forest, he said.
Leopard cat’s preservation status is Least concern. The PNP experts and the Hyderabad Tiger Conservation Society (HYTICO) have been broadly watching the untamed life developments, recording the current natural life in the national park just as its fringes, which bolster the improvement of a ‘tiger passageway’ in the coming years. The sodden deciduous woodland underpins for the flourishing of the leopard cat in the recreation center, said Mr. Saibaba.
The narrative proof given by the neighborhood networks on the nearness of leopard cat outside the recreation center was thought about to distinguish the zones to introduce the cameras. In January 2015, the nearness of a leopard cat was recorded without precedent for the PNP, as indicated by the Journal of Threatened Taxa.
A street slaughter of the leopard cat was enlisted close to the PNP as of late. The locating of the leopard cat in such a decent number in the chose three networks features the requirement for an examination on the natural life in the whole PNP, which can be considered a ‘protected living space’ for the leopard cat in the Eastern Ghats, E. Santosh Kumar, HYTICO Conservation Consultant, said. Mr. Santosh is occupied with untamed life contemplate in the PNP.
In Western the Ghats, more than 100 leopard cat have been located in the four stores — Bhandra Tiger Reserve, BRT Tiger Reserve, Nagarhole and Bandipur saves.