It is not that their capture and relocation helps. As studies over the years have shown, if one livestock eating leopard is caught and kept under observation or sent to another area, some other leopard takes its place. Leopards preying on human babies or livestock or dogs is not uncommon. After all, it is humans that encroach into their territory, not vice versa. So, what really is the solution to this problem that is accentuated in Mumbai because the density of leopards in a small area is steadily increasing?

Unfortunately, there seems to be no permanent solution apart from strictly maintaining a fenced area between humans and animals. Throughout the world, this has proved a futile exercise as there are more than just environment factors involved politics being one in Mumbai.

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The other solution is to create awareness in schools, colleges and even corporate firms about the importance of leopards and wild animals to the ecology and how humans should avoid entering their territory for their own sake. It is not an easy road ahead if we have to preserve our city’s ecological balance. But you need to start somewhere.