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.
Similipal Tiger Reserve
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.
In December 2024, Zeenat the tigress crossed three states and eluded capture for three weeks. This July, she’s raising four cubs in Similipal — and rewriting how her journey gets told.