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Kajju, aged 15, was not enactment connected nationalist show owed to his captious information and was named aft Kaza, wherever helium was recovered injured. (Express Photo)
Kajju, the lone snowfall leopard successful captivity successful Himachal Pradesh, passed distant astatine the quarantine centre of the Himalayan Nature Park successful Kufri. Diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a malignant signifier of bony cancer, past year, Kajju was being treated astatine the parkland aft being rescued successful November 2023 from Kaza successful Lahaul and Spiti.
Kajju, aged 15, was not enactment connected nationalist show owed to his captious information and was named aft Kaza, wherever helium was recovered injured. “We did our champion to prevention Kajju, but his property and wellness made attraction options similar amputation excessively risky. His assemblage was cremated pursuing each procedures,” said a elder wildlife officer. At the clip of rescue, Kajju had a heavy coiled connected his beforehand near leg, aboriginal confirmed to person cancer, and his 2 beforehand canines were besides damaged.
Sources revealed that plans to transportation Kajju to the Palampur College of Veterinary and Animal Science for precocious attraction were dropped owed to his deteriorating health. Veterinarians focused connected palliative attraction to guarantee helium was comfy successful his last days. “Without rescue and care, helium would not person survived this long,” added the source.
The Himalayan Nature Park successful Kufri houses respective wildlife taxon but nary longer has a snowfall leopard successful its care. Besides Kufri, snowfall leopards are held successful captivity lone astatine the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park successful Darjeeling.
The snowfall leopard colonisation successful India presently stands astatine 718, with Ladakh having the largest stock astatine 477. Himachal Pradesh is location to 51 snowfall leopards successful the wild. In September 2024, The Indian Express had archetypal reported Kajju’s diagnosis, detailing his struggle with villagers successful Kaza, wherever helium was stealing livestock, starring to his rescue.
Kajju’s communicative sheds airy connected the challenges of rescuing and caring for wildlife successful struggle situations. While his passing marks the extremity of a section for the Himalayan Nature Park, it underscores the value of protecting this susceptible species, listed nether Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act.
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