To counter poaching in Odisha's Similipal Tiger Reserve, armed police are aiding forest personnel in patrols and flag marches. The decision followed the arrest of 10 individuals linked to the killing ...

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 ...

Two platoons of armed police will be deployed in the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Odisha, informed Mayurbhanj SP Varun Guntupalli. The armed police will work with Forest Department officials to ...

Authorities have decided to deploy armed police forces to support forest personnel in patrolling areas prone to poaching within the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Odisha. This decision follows ...

Baripada: Protection of Royal Bengal Tigers (RBTs) at Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district has emerged as a big challenge for the Forest department personnel as there is no let-up in ...

A melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger was killed by poachers in Similipal Tiger Reserve, the world's only habitat for these rare tigers. Authorities arrested four men and seized the hide, nails ...

BHUBANESWAR/BARIPADA: Skin and other body parts of a rare melanistic tiger, unique to the Similipal landscape, were seized by forest officials from the possession of four persons in the fringe ...

Baripada: Forest department officials arrested four persons from Similipal forest in Odisha and seized skin and nails of a rare juvenile melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger from them, a senior official ...

The arrests occurred on Sunday during an enforcement action by the special unit of Similipal South Wildlife Division in the Tentula and Balighat villages, as stated by Prakash Chand Gogineni, field ...

In the first instance of killing of a rare melanistic tiger, the Odisha Forest authorities, on Wednesday, arrested four wildlife offenders and seized the skin of a slain big cat in Similipal Tiger ...

A rare melanistic tiger at Similipal Tiger Reserve has been killed by poachers, sparking outrage. Four poachers have been arrested, while the mastermind remains at large. The poachers targeted the ...