Wildfires in Indian tiger reserves have always been a problem, especially for the past decades, and threaten lands and critical wildlife. Odisha suffers.…
The much-vaunted inter-state tiger translocation drive ended in a whimper after Sundari, the four-and-half year-old tigress relocated from Madhya Pradesh in 2018 to Satkoisa tiger reserve in Odisha’s Angul district was sent back to the Kanha reserve in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday evening.
Angul Regional Chief Conservator of Forest Pradeep Raj…
The grand plan to repopulate Odisha’s Satkosia Tiger Reserve has come to a naught with Sundari, one of a tiger pair, set to be sent back to Madhya Pradesh.
A team of veterinarians from the Kanha Tiger Reserve is likely to reach Satkosia with a special van on Sunday to take…
Madhya Pradesh forest officials are trying to get an enclosure at Kanha National Park ready to house the translocated tigress 'Sundari' from Odisha. This tigress is presently kept in captivity at Raigoda enclosure in Satkosia Tiger Reserve (STR) for nearly three years. Once home, Sundari would be shifted to Ghorela…
Even as the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has sent in a joint-team to extend support to tackle wildfire raging in the State, a drastic reduction in Central funds has badly affected key operations in Similipal and Satkosia tiger reserves (TRs) of the State.
Sources said there has…
As wildfires continue to rage the forests across Odisha, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on Wednesday alerted the State government to take all preventive measures in Similipal and Satkosia tiger reserves to check forest fires in the dry days ahead.…
From the forest fires in Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve that have been raging for more than a week to the glacier breach in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district to the constantly worsening air quality in north India, the environmental crisis caused by human disregard or interference is more obvious than ever.
According to…
Odisha is currently facing an ecological crisis as a forest fire is spreading in the Simlipal forest and forest officials are struggling to contain it for the past 10 days. The area is India’s largest biosphere reserve and home to many species of birds, fish, and animals including the Royal…
Indian forestry officials said on Thursday they had brought a week-long blaze in a tiger reserve under control.
Hundreds of forestry officials in Similipal National Park, home to protected species including the Bengal tiger and Asian elephant, have been using leaf blowers to clear debris at risk of catching fire.
"The fire…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday asked the chief secretary of Odisha to complete the rehabilitation and resettlement of five revenue villages displaced due to tiger and wildlife conservation projects in Satkosia in Angul district within three months.
The panel by the NHRC passed an order recently. The case…