Photographer Nayan Khanolkar is documenting the extraordinary lives of urban leopards. In the suburbs of Mumbai, the streets are bustling. By day, alleyways serve as playgrounds, cricket strips, resting areas and walkways for the city's human inhabitants.

Aug 9, 2023 · Leopards are the most adaptable and widespread of big cats, surviving in a vast variety of habitats, including urban landscapes, such as Mumbai in India.

May 3, 2024 · Long protected by Mumbai’s tribal communities, can the city’s famously adaptable urban leopards survive urbanisation and sterilisation? A megacity with a population of 20 million, Mumbai is probably the last place you’d expect to see leopards prowling in the streets at night.

Nov 24, 2022 · Three people suffered injuries after a leopard strayed into a residential area near Mumbai’s Kalyan. There are 35 leopards living around the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, adjoining the city. While Mumbai and the big cat have peacefully existed together, the …

Apr 1, 2023 · Mumbai, a city of more than 20 million people, borders the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) and other green areas in which 50 or so leopards live. Credit: Nayan Khanolkar An Eye for an Eye

Jan 8, 2022 · The leopards of Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), Mumbai, are “hardcore Mumbaikars,” says Nikit Surve. “Like me, they were born and raised here.” They are as used to bright lights and ...

Mar 8, 2018 · Leopards are often thought of as a threat to humans, but rather than being a problem in Mumbai, they may actually be helping their human neighbours — even saving their lives — as we argue in our paper published today in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

The project focuses on providing the following information on a public platform: maps of past instances of human–leopard conflict, existing biodiversity information, and evidence of leopards from in and around the Park.

May 3, 2024 · On International Leopard Day, three wildlife experts share how they track, analyse and deploy technology to safeguard the leopard population in Mumbai

Feb 8, 2022 · Humans and leopards co-exist in Mumbai — and one cannot take chances. The park and several green pockets around it, like the Aarey Milk Colony, Film City, IIT-Bombay are leopard territories,...