“As per report, Similipal comprises around 1,300 sq km of dense forest, 1,717 sq km of medium forest and 1,042 sq km of open forest where at least 973 fire points have been identified. Most ...

Bhubaneswar: With tigress Yamuna exploring her new habitat in Similipal Tiger Reserve and Zeenat likely to be released into the wild soon, forest department's wildlife wing has started the process ...

As the winter makes its way out, Odisha needs to be on the watch for the annual forest fire season.Flagged among the three ...

Zeenat, a 3-year-old tigress, went awol from Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve soon after being transferred there from the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. Zeenat and another tigress, ...

DIG Satyajit Naik said, about 90 forest staff who had received fire-arm training from the police ... have been installed in several locations of Similipal tiger reserve beside deployment of ...

Similipal Tiger Reserve’s (STR) most famous Kumki elephant, Mahendra, who had earlier survived bullet attacks by the land mafia in 2009 and rendered a yeoman’s service over the years for the Odisha ...

"This is the story of tiger conservation during 2024, the turnaround in Similipal Tiger Reserve ... In Sundargarh's Hemgiri forest, the melanistic leopard was captured in one of the camera ...

PTI In a major crackdown against poachers and illegal traders of body parts of wild animals, forest officials arrested four people at the Similipal forest in Odisha and seized the skin and nails of a ...

The elephant during its deployment in Similipal, had received bullet injuries in a Maoist attack in 2012. A 66-year-old tusker engaged in protecting timber and tigers in the Similipal Tiger ...

Baripada: A 66-year-old tusker engaged in protecting timber and tigers in the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, has died during treatment, a senior forest department ...