A satellite-tagged Olive Ridley turtle from Odisha has travelled 6,719 km in 271 days to waters east of Sri Lanka, an early result from a tracking programme that aims to follow a Schedule I species well beyond the nesting beaches where its conservation has traditionally focused.
Odisha Forest Department
A seven-month-old tiger cub strayed out of the forest and into a villager’s house in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Thursday night, setting off a rescue that has forest officials searching for a mother tiger who may have lost track of her cub.
Odisha’s police Special Task Force and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau have opened a joint investigation into how five orphaned orangutans ended up abandoned in a forest near Balasore, after CCTV cameras picked up a black SUV near the rescue site the night before villagers found them.
Forest patrol teams in Odisha’s Balasore district found five orangutan babies in the Bichitrapur forest area, under Bhograi block, on 8 September.
Odisha switched on a new command centre for its forests on 22 July, built to watch over the state’s parks, sanctuaries and elephant corridors in something close to real time.