1. What was your motivation to choose this job?

We were first recruited by the department. We were a bit adventurous from the beginning. We chose
the department and joined here. We were selected as the exam director and joined here. I joined as a
director. You said that you are not interested in wildlife animals.

2. How did you get interested in them?

We grew up in Mysore. We grew up watching the Chamandi hills. We were interested in nature
from the beginning. We chose the department based on that interest. When we were young, we used to
run around. I was running around like a kid. That's how I got motivated and joined.

3. Are there any challenges facing you? What challenges are you facing?

You are mainly asking about rescue. I am a rainforest officer here. Leopard transport was a
member of the team. I was a member of the team. There are 8 DROFOs, 4 DROFOs, 45 DROFOs and staff
in the outsource. They are just helpers. This is the Leopard Task Force. It is a 4-team task force. We have
4 teams. We have attended all the complaints about Leopard in Mysore and Mandya. We also receive
complaints from people who say they saw a leopard. Or they say that a cattle killed a cow and ate it. We
also receive complaints from people who say they saw a leopard. We have a helpline for this. You can
contact the helpline. The LPLINE contact number is also there. Please note it down. 9481996026 This is
the LPLINE of the Leper Task Force. All the complaints are registered in LPLINE. We have a complaint
register. We register it. All that is our ongoing department work. We continue it. If there are any
challenges in the rescue, we face challenges every day. When a leopard complaint comes, we go to the
spot, visit it, observe it, see what complaint has come, run around it, observe the cattle kill. We look at
the location and transfer the cage to it. After the cage is placed, we do camera trapping. We observe that
and place the cage.

The leopard is placed in the cage. When it is placed, we transfer it. Usually, when the leopard is
caught, we do two important procedures. We do a very important procedure. It has a unique ID. We
microchip it and it has a unique ID. There is a metal detector. If we scan it, we get a number. We capture
it and if it is healthy, we release it to the wild. Before releasing it, we microchip it and get a unique ID.
We maintain the ID and we do ear notching. Usually, we do it for cows. We do the same for the wild. We
cut the ears of the wildebeest and use it for tracking. Next, we create an ID that says, wherever we
capture the wildebeest, we have found it in this place.

Sometimes, when the leopards or the ants are seen, we tranquilize them. We go with the team,
and tranquilize them. In the wild, especially in the small ones there are elephants. The elephants have
their task force. Mysore, Chamaraja Nagar, Kodagu, Chikmangalur, hasan. There are 5 circles and in each
circle, there is a task force. We have a permanent staff with 45 members.

4. If you had died in an accident, would you have felt bad?

We have never faced such a situation. We have never faced a situation where the public runs and kills a
wild animal. But sometimes there is aggression in the public. When they see a leopard, they run and
threaten it. There is aggression. But we have controlled it, faced the situation, and successfully rescued
it. We have never encountered such a situation.

Can you give an example?

 We deal with nature and the public. Usually, our duty is challenging. We don’t work with humans, we
encounter animals. Humans have aggression, it is common in society. We don’t have police, it is
challenging in our department. We can’t leave them alone. We can’t leave them in conflict. We have
encountered a lot of people. It’s quite natural. We are used to it. We have been doing this for 10-15
years. We have continued in the same way. When we interact with the public, they have their problems.
If we encounter them, we give them some information. If we work together, we don’t have any problem.

How much negative or positive is there in the public? There is negative interaction in the public. What is
the chance of positive interaction? Usually, there is a negative, we have to convert it to a positive. In
some situations, we don’t blame the department for the leopard. When we go to the spot and deal with
it, it can be seen as negative and positive. Or they come and work. The problem with wild animals is like
this. They also take suitable steps to do it. They accept it and do it. How many animals did you rescue in
your service? We were in different places, so we don’t know the exact numbers. We did the situation
there. Approximately, we rescued about 27 today. 27, 35.

5. How many do you rescue per month?

We rescue 4 or 5 per month.

6. What about the other animals?

We have elephants.

7. What is the advantage of having elephants?

We can take them back to the forest.

We can rescue them. We have done unlimited work. We have been doing this for 10 years. We have
been maintaining the number of leopards. We have 27 leopards. We have been doing this from 1 to 23
February. We have been doing this from 1 to 23 February. We have been doing this from 1 to 23
February. 8 to 9, that’s the plus. You all had a favourite moment.

You were so passionate about rescuing people. You supported them. I was lucky to be with them. When
I was in nanjungudu, there was a situation where a leopard got trapped in a channel. We had to rescue it
from morning to evening. We had to do the same situation twice. That was a great satisfaction. The
public was very excited. We rescued it with public support. We had to rescue it before it was trapped.
That was a great satisfaction.

8. What is the time management of the team? Can you work more night-on-night? How much time do
you need to work?

We work 24 hours a day.

9. Do you have any advice for the general public? What is your advice to the general public?

They don’t work in the morning. They encounter problems every day. There are other animals in the
forest. Other animals are usually……jinxed and hunted. They hunt for food. Others hunt for their dad’s
presence.

They do it because it is in their customs and rituals. They can’t control that. What about the present?
Some of them are still doing it. There are no surroundings like this in Mysore. Some of them are in other
foreign villages. They are still doing it. The book cases for that. They can’t control that. It was there in the
past. If we continue it, it will be like this.

10. What about animal extinctions in our area.

If we do something illegal, it will be extinct. There is another species called endangered. Our research
team is working on that. We don’t have any extinction in our area. We have good conservation activities,
so all the animals are well-developed.

11. What about the information about tigers?

We have just started the Tiger Project, which is 50 years old. It is a Tiger project at Mysore University.
The Tigers are second in Karnataka. Madhya Pradesh. Tiger Breeding is going on well. I have seen the
progress of the project Tiger. The progress of the project is also good. The progress of the project is also
good. The breeding is going on well.