Bhubaneswar: Bhabani, a 68-year-old captive elephant who assisted forest officials in conservation, security and tourism endeavours at Similipal Tiger Reserve in Mayurbhanj district for over two ...

Bhubaneswar: Forest officials thwarted a poaching attempt by five in Similipal Tiger Reserve on Tuesday and arrested two of them based on footage from AI cameras installed in STR. The two arrested ...

PCCF (wildlife) Prem Kumar Jha said after she was brought back to Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR), Zeenat’s behaviour in the enclosure has been normal. “A steering committee had also visited the ...

BARIPADA: Poaching of the melanistic tiger has prompted the State Police to join forces with the Similipal tiger reserve management as both agencies have launched intensive combing in the tiger ...

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 ...

were released into the Similipal Tiger Reserve. Zeenat was released into the wild following 10 days of acclimatisation in the core area of Similipal’s northern division on November 24.

Zeenat was released in Similipal Tiger Reserve’s core area on November 23 after it was brought from Maharashtra’s Tadoba. The tigress strayed into West Bengal via Jharkhand, complicating ...

Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made mention of the two new tiger reserves in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in his first ‘Mann Ki Baat’ of the year. Mr Modi said that two new ...

Bhubaneswar: Tigress Zeenat has made her way back to Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve, days after being tranquillised and captured in West Bengal. The majestic feline was released into a soft ...

The tiger supplementation committee formed for release of big cats in Similipal from the Central India landscape will now ...

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 official said ...