Leopards and deer to help find truth about SGNP twin tunnels https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/mumbai-leopards-and-deer-to-help-find-truth-about-sgnp-twin-tunnels-23354050 With the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) approving the Thane-Borivli underground twin tunnel project by the MMRDA, which will pass below the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) will study the project’s impact on ground-dwelling animals. To do this, WII plans to collar a total of 30 wild animals, including leopards, spotted deer, and sambar deer.
The habitat (above the ground) is going to remain the same but there are chances that the ground-dwelling animals might sense the vibrations and we want to study how they react to the same. A radio telemetry study will be undertaken wherein we will radio collar three major wild species including leopard, spotted deer and sambar deer to study their movements before and after.”