Odisha tigress in Bengal: Forest officials on tenterhooks
Hundreds of forest officials from West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha are camping in Purulia forests at the moment but the big cat, Zeenat, is still elusive.
Hundreds of forest officials from West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha are camping in Purulia forests at the moment but the big cat, Zeenat, is still elusive.
Acting on a tip off forest officials of Ambari Range in Jalpaiguri arrested two persons and seized six deer antlers from their possession yesterday
During the thorough search, the team found one elephant ivory concealed in a bag, weighing around 3 kg with a length of 2.9 ft.
Forest officials with workers, started digging the land for plantation. Learning about it, people gathered and reached the spot and opposed it.
Talking to The Statesman, Milon Kanti Mondal, divisional forest officer (DFO) of Durgapur, said, “In the past few months since the lock down period started in late March, our forest department has rescued and saved nine pythons, two falcons, three eagles, big turtle, three big and rare owls, rare sand boa, krait, cobra, Russel viper , monkey etc. Most were injured. Birds have been treated and released in the dense forest parts.”
A leopard cub that strayed into human habitation was rescued by the forest officials from Chakkar in the periphery of Shimla on Tuesday morning.
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