Cheetah taken under control from pheasant farm

Kathmandu - A Cheetah that had entered a poultry farm in Singha of ward no. 4 in Beni municipality has been taken under control. A team from the National Nature Conservation Trust in Chitwan fired a tranquilizer shot to take the Cheetah under control.

The female cheetah believed to be around two to three years old was 184 centimeters long with a height of 52 centimeters and weighed 35 kgs, according to acting chief of Division Forest Office, Myagdi Santosh Khanal.

The Pheasant farm run by the Hariyali group had 450 pheasants and an assessment is being carried out to calculate the damage caused by the wild animal.