Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Three days after a mob stormed into the core area of Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) threatening the field staff to go on a hunting spree, the park officials on Friday arrested as many as 35 poachers. Fifteen guns and animal meat were also seized from their possession. Sleuths from three …
COUNTRY’s FIRST: Fifty-four personnel were given three-month training to provide them with skills such as how to survive in the jungle and use of weapons like SLR, assault rifles, LMG and grenades, The STPF unit will be divided into three groups and will be solely responsible for taking anti-poaching measures, …
BHUBANESWAR: In a significant breakthrough in elephant poaching case, the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) joint team on Monday arrested four persons, including the kingpin, for their involvement in the jumbo killings. The team arrested the kingpin, Mohan Majhi, his two associates and Sarfaraz, who …
BHUBANESWAR: The Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) authorities have sought the help of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) to track those behind the latest elephant poaching in the national park. Regional Deputy Director of WCCB Chaturbhuj Behera will arrive on Monday to assist the STR officials in the investigation into elephant …
With the aim of ensuring safe movement of tigers into different landscapes, the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) is re-establishing tiger corridors. Two such corridors involve Madhya Pradesh but existing natural corridors like Kanha-Pench, Kanha-Achanakmar etc do not figure in this list, which has disappointed experts. Minister of State …
Environmentalists have set the alarm bells ringing in Simlipal Tiger Reserve over rampant illegal mining activities on the foothills allegedly under the knowledge of forest staff, illegal country made liquor dens brewing up in the area besides the poor condition of the elephant corridors. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is expected …
Eight months after Similipal Tiger Reserve shot to infamy over burning of elephant carcasses by its field staff to erase evidence of poaching, three more elephants were found dead inside the reserve
India is a veritable emporium of herbs. The inhabitants of India knew of the medicinal use of plants from time immemorial. Under the impact of state-sponsored economic development programmes and processes of modernization, the traditional cultures of tribal communities have begun to change. Deforestation and the replacement of natural forests …
Similipal Biosphere Reserve of northern Orissa is one among the seven such reserves of India that form a part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The overall objective of the Biosphere Reserve programme was to deal with one of the most important questions of reconciling conservation of biodiversity, quest …
With the four-member NC Saxena committee making recommendations against Vedanta in Odisha, prominent environmentalist and member of Transparency International India, Biswajit Mohanty, has written to the State Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for fixing of accountability on the officers indicted in the report. The Saxena committee was set up by the …
This could be the road to another tragic Sariska, albeit of elephants, not tigers. In a span of about 45 days across April-May, at least 10 elephants have been confirmed killed at the Simlipal National Park, a tiger reserve in Orissa
The spree of elephant killings in the Simlipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha seems to have caught the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Environment Ministry on the wrong foot. For, three successive committees have been formed in the last three months - all aimed at controlling the unabated jumbo deaths …
Field staff of Simlipal Tiger Reserve, the fourth-largest tiger reserve in the country, burnt a large number of elephant carcasses to remove any evidences of poaching, a probe committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has found. After a number of elephant deaths were reported in April and May …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said that there were 25 extremist attacks in the Similipal Tiger Reserve between March 28 to April 15, 2009 causing largescale damage to its infrastructure such as buildings, roads, bridges, forest rest houses, watchtowers and VHF towers. To a question from Ramchandra Hansdah (NCP) …
Worried over Similipal Tiger Reserve turning into a second Sariska, the National Tiger Conservation Authority has pressed panic buttons to save the wildlife there facing extinction. The fourth largest tiger reserve in the country reported a staggering 40 per cent decrease in its tiger population (from 101 to 61) in …
Debabrata Mohanty A two-member expert committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has started its investigation into the biggest ever poaching of elephants inside Orissa's famous Simlipal Tiger Reserve after two wildlife activists of Mayurbhanj district took off the lid on the incident. Following petitions by wildlife activists to …
