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 …
BHUBANESWAR: The Left wing extremists have done it again. With the State Government focussed on combatting them elsewhere, the Red rebels have targeted another wildlife sanctuary, also a tiger habitat, without facing any resistance whatsoever. After Similipal Tiger Reserve, the attack at Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary has come as a grave …
BHUBANESWAR: The suspected killing of a Royal Bengal Tiger and the recent Maoist onslaught at Similipal has prompted the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) to take note of the situation. A top WCCB official today met Chief Wildlife Warden BK Patnaik and proposed capacity building measures for both police and …
BHUBANESWAR: As the security forces moved into Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) to regain the ground lost to Left Wing Extremists (LWEs) after three successive attacks, the State Government on Saturday decided to approach National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for raising of the protection force meant exclusively for the large cats …
BHUBANESWAR: The debate over tiger population in Similipal will go on for sure. The latest census carried out in Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) has put their number at 71. Last year the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had created a flutter by projecting the population in the reserve at 20 …
BARIPADA: The pug mark-based census will be carried out in the Simlipal Tiger Reserve (STR) from January 5 to 10. This STR is home to 101 Royal Bengal tigers and 127 leopards as per the 2004 census. Pug mark-based headcount of the big cats has been directed by Principal Chief …
To conserve the representative ecosystems, a Biosphere Reserve program is being implemented. Ten biodiversity rich areas of the country have been designated as Biosphere Reserves applying the UNESCO/MAB criteria. These reserves aim at conserving the biological diversity and genetic integrity of plants, animals and microorganisms in their totality as part …
in a repeat of last year's grim toll, over 20 children, including infants, died of malnutrition and other diseases in two gram panchayats in Orissa's Similipal Wildlife Sanctuary since January 2007. A report by an independent fact-finding team links poverty, unhygienic drinking water and absence of healthcare facilities to the …
In a significant contribution to a longstanding debate, the Anthropological Survey of India has come out with a study showing that four villages in the core zone of Orissa's Similipal Reserve cause very little ecological damage. The debate over relocating the four villages has raged on for over three decades …
as the Simlipal National Park in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district closes during monsoon to protect wildlife, it turns into a graveyard for its human inhabitants, reports an independent working group on protected areas. In June, an infant's death inside the sanctuary sparked off an investigation by this group of local ngos …
massive ecological destruction is leading to the drying up of riverbeds, nullahs and streams in and around Similipal. This was a common fear expressed by speakers at a recent workshop on 'River and dam management in the context of Similipal protection' organised recently. It is estimated that there are about …
it is difficult to maintain any objectivity in research when the subject becomes an object of love. But born naturalist Saroj Raj Choudhury, an Indian Forest Service officer and the first field director of the Simlipal National Park, accomplishes this difficult task in his book . The book's account of …
between 1846 and 1975, black tigers were sighted only six times the world over. But in the Simlipal Tiger Reserve (str), in the Baripada district in Orissa, they have been sighted at least six times in the last two decades. "Simlipal has the world's highest rate of black tiger sighting. …
authorities at the Simplipal Tiger Reserve in Orissa have recently formed 19 camps to monitor the movement of bull elephants and nab poachers who continue to threaten the gene pool of tuskers, an already endangered lot. This measure was taken in view of the fact that poachers in the reserve …
IVORY smugglers are having a field day in the famed Simlipal National Park in Mayurbhanj district of Orissa, despite the ban on ivory trade. Poachers are on an elephant killing spree, while park officials have chosen to turn a blind eye to their illegal activities. Recently, the forest officials found …
POACHERs are motivated purely by commercial gain. But the tribals of Simlipal in Orissa are prompted by almost sacrosanct tradition - an annual hunting ceremony known as akhand shikar or .mass hunting excursion", which turns them into ferocious killers of even protected animals. The ritual normally begins in mid-April on …
This indicative plan has based on the work of field/park directors and their colleagues in the eight protected areas, and of various non-governmental organisations involved in carrying out PRA in the proposed project area. The final output has benefit greatly from the inputs of the various national consultants and consulting …
A DEBATE on how best to count the tiger population sparked talk of hidden cameras and 3-D photographs at a symposium earlier this year. But most delegates agreed in the end that none of the methods suggested is any more reliable and economical than the pugmark census. The delegates were …
