Vanya Prani Mitra, assisting conservation efforts of the Gujarat Forest Department, alerted staff of the Savarkundla range that a leopard had accidentally fallen into an open well on the agricultural farm in Badhada of Savarkundla in Amreli.
“It was gathering dark and raining when the train hit a four-month old lion cub,” Rajdeepsinh Zala, deputy conservator of forests (DCF) of Gir (east) wildlife division, told The Indian Express.
Asiatic lions are an endangered species whose only population in the world is surviving in the Gir Forest and other protected areas in Junagadh, Amreli, Gir Somnath, and Bhavnagar districts in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region.