Tag: Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary

Kendrapara: Forest officials on Monday seized 25 kg of deer meat and arrested a poacher from Shailendranagar village near Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary in Kendrapara district. Acting on a tip off, the 45-year-old, a member of a local poaching racket was arrested with the raw meat and nylon nets used for ensnaring wild animals, forest officials […]

Kendrapara: After a five-year break, annual headcount exercise of dolphins inhabiting along brackish water bodies of the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary and Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in Odisha will be held on January 19, a forest official said on Tuesday. A survey of these animals is vital for the study of the growth pattern of the aquatic […]