Tag: Hunting

Khurda: Despite several anti-poaching measures and warnings issued by the Wildlife department, poachers have continued hunting birds on a large-scale basis in the Chilika Lake. With thousands of migratory birds arriving at Nalabana and Mangalajodi areas, these poachers have also become super-active in carrying out illegal activities. Every year, these migratory birds from Siberia, Malaysia, […]

Berhampur: A farmer of Motajhari village under Buguda Tehsil in Ganjam district was killed today after he came in contact with live electric wires laid as ‘trap’ by  suspected poachers to hunt wild boar. The deceased has been identified as Gadei Gouda. The incident took place when Gouda had gone to his farm land this […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Forest officials recently arrested a man selling horseshoe crabs, an endangered marine species in Mayurbhanj district. A native of West Bengal he was caught with six live specimens of the species whose popular name is a misnomer in that they are not true crabs which are crustaceans. But these blue blooded […]