SRINAGAR: A female black bear was on Saturday rescued alongside its two cubs from Drugmulla in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.

Black Bear With 2 Cubs Rescued In North Kashmir

Reports said that the bear had taken shelter in an abandoned structure near Dogar Mohalla, Drugmulla area in Kupwara.

A Wildlife Department arrived at the site and on tranquilising the beast safely evacuated it alongside its two cubs to a safer place.

A Wildlife Department official on the occasion thanked the local populace for their cooperation in the safe evacuation of the wild animal. “It has happened first time in my over thirty-year service that despite the female giving birth has been left alone and unharmed in some area and the local populace deserves due credit for this,” news agency GNS quoted the official as having said.

“The animal would be released at some feasible place away from human habitation,” the official added.

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