Crocodile found in Oshiwara; rescued by SGNP members
A paani puri seller in Oshiwara first saw the crocodile a few days back. He told people in the area this, but no one took him seriously.
After a complex, five-hour-long operation that occurred in the early hours of Sunday, a Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) unit and Wildlife Welfare Association (WWA) volunteers managed to save an Indian marsh crocodile from Oshiwara successfully.
Range Forest Officer (RFO) Vijay Barabde from SGNP stated, “The crocodile was securely captured around 2 am on Sunday by three members of the SGNP with the assistance of Honorary Wildlife Warden Rohit Mohite and his colleagues from the WWA.”
“The 2.5-foot-long crocodile weighed 6 kg. It has undergone a medical evaluation by the SGNP veterinary officer and is healthy enough for release.”
After the medical certificate is completed, the crocodile will be released into its natural habitat.
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According to Mohite, the SGNP unit and 10 WWA volunteers reached the place where the reptile had been seen at about 9 pm on Saturday to set a cage trap.
“We realised that the crocodile can be caught using other techniques, and so our team members entered the water, and by 2 am, it was successfully rescued,” he stated.
A paani puri seller in Oshiwara first saw the crocodile a few days back. He told people in the area this, but no one took him seriously.
Later, a local saw it and the sightings were reported to Raju Pednekar, a Shiv Sena head and ex-councillor of the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray(UBT) group, following which the forest division was notified.
