Tag: Bhitarkanika National Park

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

The state forest department personnel today rescued a 18.2 feet long Indian Rock Python in distressed condition from a haystack in Paramanandapur village on the fringes of Bhitarkanika National Park here

Kendrapara: The Bhitarkanika National Park will remain out of bounds for visitors for the bird and crocodile census which will be taken up from today. The census will conclude on January 14, official sources said. While the bird counting will begin today, the enumeration of estuarine crocodiles in various water bodies of Bhitarkanika, Gahirmatha, Luna […]

Bhubaneswar: The crocodile population in Odisha’s Bhitarkanika National Park has gone up to 1,665, the annual census revealed Thursday. The number is 21 more than last year’s 1,644. The crocodiles sighted in the park’s water bodies during the census include 511 hatchlings, 380 yearlings, 317 juveniles, 149 sub-adults, 305 adults and three giant crocodiles measuring […]

Cyclone Yaas that barreled through coastal Odisha with hostile winds and torrential downpour could have unleashed a destruction of unimaginable proportions if not for the hundreds of mile-long luxuriant mangrove canopy that etches along the State's coastline as a protective barrier against nature's fury

Kendrapara: The unmanned Habelikahti Island at Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapara district, a favourite eco-tourism destination, has been ravaged by mighty tidal waves during cyclone Fani, forest officials said. Cyclone Fani that made landfall near Puri on May 3, however, spared the rest sheds for tourists at the island, they said. But a day later, […]