Ramesh urges Naveen to save tiger in Odisha
Worried over the declining number of Royal Bengal tigers in Odisha forests, former Union Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Monday urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to take steps to
Simlipal NP
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Similipal Tiger Reserve remains closed
BHUBANESWAR: Similipal appears to be nobody
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Royal Bank of Scotland aid for 3 tiger reserves
Some of the most inaccessible and extremism-affected tiger reserves in India are set to get a booster shot: all the way from Scotland.
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Forest officials to be sensitised on camera trap
BHUBANESWAR: Given the conflict between the State and Centre over the tiger enumeration using camera trap methodology, the latter has decided to capacitate the Forest Department with the knowhow so that they could use the improved technology in future.
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Similipal tiger reserve: a rapid field assessment of conservation status
A committee was set up by the National Tiger Conservation Authority on 14th July 2009 to visit Similipal Tiger Reserve and undertake: an appraisal of the damage to infrastructure/habitat due to left?wing extremism; assessment of present status of
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Illegal mining threatens Similipal
BHUBANESWAR: The neglect over Similipal Biosphere Reserve (SBR) by the authorities concerned has come to light once again with `no field visit
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Poachers, timber mafia plundering Orissa biosphere reserve
BHUBANESWAR: Timber mafias and poachers were out to plunder forest resources in absence of surveillance teams in the aftermath of naxal attack on government establishments in famous Similipal Biosphere Reserve (SBR) in Mayurbhanj district.
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STR has just 61 tigers: Centre
BALASORE: The Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district, the fourth biggest reserve in India, has lost 40 Royal Bengal tigers in the last five years. It has just 61 tigers at present. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh in the Rajya Sabha recently.
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Orissas denial exposed, tiger numbers down by half
Despite an expenditure of a little over Rs 10 crore in the last five years by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), over 40 per cent of the tigers in Simlipal Tiger Reserve seems to have vanished.
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Checkered lives
Life is grim for the tribals living in the reserve forest areas of the country, who face pressure from corrupt officials on one hand, and the environment lobby on the other.
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Maoist support to Orissa poachers
July 8: The Orissa government is struggling hard to protect endangered wildlife from poachers backed by Maoists in Naxal-hit Similipal Tiger Reserve in Mayurbhanj district in the absence of the promised Central paramilitary forces.