Wildlife

Bhubaneswar: The state government has nominated Orissa Environmental Society (OES) secretary, Dr Jayakrushna Panigrahi as an expert member of the "eco-sensitive zone monitoring committee" of Chandaka-Dampara Wildlife Sanctuary. The State...

Bhubaneswar: Come summer and more and more humans become victims of human-elephant encounters in Odisha. This was the outcome of data analysis of humans trampled by elephants and the incidents...

Odisha is turning out to be a hotbed for the poaching of leopards. The Odisha Forest Department and the Special Task Force (STF) of the state police seized 20 leopard...

Angul: As many as 52 Asiatic water snake babies were rescued from a village in the district on Sunday. On March 13, Bideshi Behera of Turang village near Angul town...

Bhubaneswar: The Snake Helpline has rescued an Indian cobra from a bathroom of Biju Patnaik International Airport in the Odisha capital. According to sources, the snake was spotted by the...

Bhubaneswar: The country’s first inter-state tiger translocation project in Odisha, which saw the death of wild cat and also two human beings, received the final nail on its coffin as...

Khurda: A rare colored bird, Leucistic Common Moorhen, has been spotted in Mangalajodi Bird Sanctuary in Khurda district. According to reports, bird guide Madhu Behera spotted the bird. He found...

Bhubaneswar: With Met office forecasting a harsher summer this year and forest fire breaking out in several areas of Odisha in February heat, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has...

Bhubaneswar: The reported death of an Indian Python in Chandaka Wildlife Division near here has sparked string resentment among wildlife activists, including Snake Helpline who have alleged that the snake...

Balasore: After elephants, now the cases of intrusion of bears into human habitation have been on the rise in Odisha with the latest case coming from Nilagiri town where a...