Now, a wildlife organisations in Pune will create awareness among the school students to improve the co-existence with leopards. 

The NGO has started a year-long project to educate school students, who were designated as "leopard ambassadors". Students were subsequently entrusted with the task of making their respective communities aware of more acceptability of the techniques. 

Widlife Conservation Society (WCS), India researcher Mrunal Ghosalkar informed that the project named 'Doodling the Cat’ will plan to cover 32 villages in Junnar and Sangamner talukas over a year. It had begun in January last year and concluded in February this year. The main focus was to minimise the problems faced by humans as well as leopards in sharing space.

She further said, ”We had selected 90 ambassadors among school students from standards 7 to 10. We explained them the ways to share their space safely with leopards by using flash cards illustrated by Pune-based Aditi Deo from Doodle Factory. These cards explain the precautions and the dos and don'ts in dealing with the presence of a leopard. In addition, we screened a short film, 'Waghoba Cha Khatla', for them at various community gatherings.” 

While explaining the reason for selecting students for the projects, Ghosalkar said, "Communities living in the leopard-dense regions are not as accepting of information from outsiders. So, with a student from within the community, the awareness would spread more easily." "In addition, these students are the future residents of these regions. "It's a positive thing that they are well-informed about the way for a co-existence with leopards at an early age," she added.

The territorial forest divisions of Junnar and Sangamner as well as Ovitla Landga and Rufford Foundation also helped the NGO in this project.