Scion of Bobbili Samsthanam captures black panther in Maharashtra

Bobbili (Vizianagaram): Hunting of wild animals is the hobby for the royal families for the past few centuries. Killing of tigers, lions and leopards, wild boars and deers is a status symbol for those families and even they used to take photos with those animals after killing them and hang those pictures in their halls. Those photos are replicas of their heroism. Swetha Kumar Ranga Rao, scion of Bobbili royal family, also likes to shoot those beasts but not with his gun, but with his high-end, sophisticated cameras.

He is passionate to visit sanctuaries like Gir National Park, Kanha, Manas, Jim Corbett, Suderbans, Ranthambore , Mudimalai and many more tiger reserves in the country with his friends and take photos of those cubs, tigers and cheetahs and presents those photos to his friends. He took hundreds of photos of Royal Bengal tigers and others but recently a rare animal caught in his camera during his visit to Kosla zone of Tadoba natural forest in Maharashtra.

This black panther is rarely spotted in some areas in the country by the officials of forest department and some wildlife tourists also figured it. But we can’t find them as a herd, finding them hardly one or two in some of the areas in the country. Swetha Kumar Ranga Rao captured the black panther in his camera last week in Kosla zone of Tadoba sanctuary in Maharashtra.

Even the Maharashtra government also amazed to see these photographs and appreciated his efforts. Sudhir Mungatiwar, Minister for Finance and Forests, Maharashtra government, posted that black panther, which is a rarest of the rare animal, was found in their state.

Later, Swetha Kumar said that protecting animals and environment is his passion and has been touring every forest, sanctuary in the nation and propagating the importance of protecting wildlife. He said that he would wait even four to five hours to shoot those rare animals with his camera, which gives a great pleasure to him.