AR-News: (India) At Mumbai IIT, leopards share space with techies

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

3-March-2004 


Mumbai, More than 5,000 students, teachers and their families live in the 
sprawling greens of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here. But often the 
complex also has some unwanted visitors - leopards! The 600-acre IIT complex 
is home to a rare patch of greenery in this city. Located in the northeast edge 
of Mumbai, it has the scenic Powai Lake at one end and the Sanjay Gandhi 
National Park at the other. 
It is as close to nature as one can get in Mumbai. Though often nature gets 
too close for comfort. Since the 1990s, leopards have been straying into the 
campus much to the discomfiture of the authorities. 
Of the 23 leopards trapped in the suburbs last year, eight were caught in the 
IIT campus in Powai. 
"Students have stumbled upon them in the open and we have warned them to be 
careful," says Rajesh Dhankar, security officer at the IIT campus. 




full story:

http://www.keralanext.com/news/index.asp?id=28192 
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