Caught On Camera: leopard attacks forest guard
A leopard was caught on camera attacking a forest guard in a village in Siliguri in West Bengal. The leopard strayed into Prakash Nagar village from a forest nearby. Forest officials tried to tranquilize the leopard who was unnerved by the large crowds that were following him. The leopard injured five people before he was hit by rubber bullets and subdued.
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Swati Thiyagarajan, Environment Editor
Born wild is the first long running series on wildlife and conservation on a news channel.
Swati Thiyagarajan has won two Ramnath Goenka Awards for excellence in environment journalism, the Carl Zeiss award for contributing toward tiger conservation amongst others.
Apart from the awards, she was also invited to be a jury member at WildScreen Festival in England, the largest wildlife festival in the world. Her film The Animal Communicator has over 5 million hits on YouTube and she has just completed a book on her television series.
The book is titled Born Wild and is being published in June 2017 by Bloomsbury India.
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