BARIPADA: Poaching of the melanistic tiger has prompted the State Police to join forces with the Similipal tiger reserve management as both agencies have launched intensive combing in the tiger ...

Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha is home to the world's only population of melanistic tigers, a rare genetic variant of the Royal Bengal Tiger. Melanistic tigers, with their distinct coat pattern ...

A melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger was killed by poachers in Similipal Tiger Reserve, the world's only habitat for these rare tigers. Authorities arrested four men and seized the hide, nails ...

BHUBANESWAR/BARIPADA: Skin and other body parts of a rare melanistic tiger, unique to the Similipal landscape, were seized by forest officials from the possession of four persons in the fringe ...

But they did not confess to their crime,” STR Director said. The skin of melanistic tiger was recovered when forest department personnel had raided a few houses in Tentulia village on January 12.

Baripada: Days after two persons were arrested on poaching charges along with seizing claws and teeth of a melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger from Similipal in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, forest ...

Firstly, she regretted that common jaguars – of course melanistic jaguars – face significant threats in America, including habitat loss, poaching and conflicts with humans. This places this species ...