Handwara, May 23: A brown female bear was captured alive by a Wildlife Department team in Budsungi Rajwar area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Saturday morning.
A Wildlife Department official mohd Sadiq Dar told API that on receiving information about the sighting of a brown bear along human habitation, a team of experts from range office Kupwara was sent to the area last evening.
“Searches to locate the bear were made and in the meantime a trap laid in the area”, the official said adding the bear was finally captured this morning without causing any injury to anyone.”
The beast has been been shifted to Kupwara Wildlife Sanctuary,the official further said
It is pertinent to mention here that the same Wild bear believed to be causing “damage” to graves in Rajwar from past one month”
