Tag: Bhitarkanika National Park

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is hopeful of getting the Bhitarkanika National Park, the country’s second largest mangrove forest after the Sundarbans in neighbouring West Bengal, included in the list of Unesco World Heritage Sites. “A meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) would be held in Europe in May or June to […]

Kendrapara: The Bhitarkanika National Park here has registered a rise in number of visitors last month and authorities at the sanctuary are hopeful of a steady footfall in the coming days. After remaining out of bounds for three months in view of the nesting season of crocodiles, the park reopened on August 1, much to […]

Kendrapara: The Odisha government has decided to set up a state-of-the-art interpretation centre at Bhitarkanika National Park to showcase its flora, fauna and rich biodiversity, a senior official said. At present, the national park has an interpretation centre at Dangmal but it has proved to be inadequate in preserving the vast reserve of the finest […]

Kendrapara: With the onset of the monsoon season, residential water birds have begun thronging Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, a forest official said. The winged species visit the park in thousands during this time of the year for nesting and breeding. “The water birds have started arriving at the wetland in small groups. […]

Kendrapara: A 16-feet-long adult Burmese python, which had strayed into a village near Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapara district, was rescued on Friday and released in the forest, officials said. “Locals did not harm it. After they informed us regarding the reptile, we rushed to the village and caught it alive,” said a senior Forest […]

Kendrapara: Much to the ornithologists delight, migratory birds have started arriving at the wetland spots of the Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapara district. The marshy and swampy wetland spots in the Bhitarkanika National Park have again emerged as a congenial and human-interference-free winter habitat for feathered guests from cool northern hemisphere, officials said. “Their flight […]

Kendrapara: Forest officials today arrested a man and recovered 13 kg of venison from his possession on the fringes of Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapara district. Kunmun Rout (45) allegedly hunted down a spotted deer in the mangrove forest areas within the park, along with two others, a senior forest official said. Though Rout was arrested […]

Kendrapara: With the onset of the breeding season of estuarine crocodiles, Bhitarkanika National Park authorities today clamped three-month-long prohibition on entry of tourists and visitors to the wetland sites of the park. The national park would reopen for visitors on August 1, said park officials. Prohibition is being imposed in view of the breeding season […]

Kendrapara: Bhitarkanika National Park officials have rescued an endangered barn owl, a scheduled animal under the Wildlife Act, from a place of worship at a village in Kendrapara district. Forest personnel swung into action after receiving a report that superstitious local residents of Balipapala village within the limits of Mahakalpada police station had held the […]

Kendrapara: The State Election Commission (SEC) in Odisha has exempted Forest officials working in wildlife parks and sanctuaries of two districts from election duty in the forthcoming panchayat polls in the state as it would hamper the ongoing wildlife and turtle protection drive. SEC secretary Rabindranath Sahoo said the Forest official from wildlife parks and […]

Kendrapara: Odisha may be receiving thousands of foreign tourists every year but only a fraction of them visit Bhitarkanika National Park allegedly due to hassles in mandatory registration of overseas visitors by the forest department, a charge denied by the department. Odisha had received as many as 66,971 international tourists in 2016 but their inflow […]

Kendrapara: Forest officials have seized deer hide, antlers and 42 kg of venison at a village close to Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha and arrested one person in connection with it today. Bhagyadhar Mandal, one of those allegedly involved in killing the deer has been arrested from Khamarasahi village from Kendrapara district, they said. Akshya […]

Kendrapara: Two inland fisherman were today taken into custody for trespassing and carrying out illegal fishing in prohibited water-body corridors of Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha’s Kendrapara district. A patrol squad of officials intercepted a mechanised vessel used for fishing and arrested two crews who were engaged in illegal fishing activity within the protected forest […]

A man has been arrested with two rare Indian chameleons near Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapara district, a forest department official said today

Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapara district played host to over one lakh migrant water birds this monsoon, registering discernible rise in number of winged guests compared to last year