Similipal Biosphere Reserve of northern Orissa is one among the seven such reserves of India that form a part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The overall objective of the Biosphere Reserve programme was to deal with one of the most important questions of reconciling conservation of biodiversity, quest for economic and social development, and maintenance of associated cultural values.
With the four-member NC Saxena committee making recommendations against Vedanta in Odisha, prominent environmentalist and member of Transparency International India, Biswajit Mohanty, has written to the State Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for fixing of accountability on the officers indicted in the report.
The Saxena committee was set up by the Environment Ministry to examine the proposal of ba
This could be the road to another tragic Sariska, albeit of elephants, not tigers. In a span of about 45 days across April-May, at least 10 elephants have been confirmed killed at the Simlipal National Park, a tiger reserve in Orissa
The spree of elephant killings in the Simlipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha seems to have caught the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Environment Ministry on the wrong foot. For, three successive committees have been formed in the last three months - all aimed at controlling the unabated jumbo deaths in the State.
Field staff of Simlipal Tiger Reserve, the fourth-largest tiger reserve in the country, burnt a large number of elephant carcasses to remove any evidences of poaching, a probe committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has found.
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said that there were 25 extremist attacks in the Similipal Tiger Reserve between March 28 to April 15, 2009 causing largescale damage to its infrastructure such as buildings, roads, bridges, forest rest houses, watchtowers and VHF towers.
Worried over Similipal Tiger Reserve turning into a second Sariska, the National Tiger Conservation Authority has pressed panic buttons to save the wildlife there facing extinction.
A two-member expert committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has started its investigation into the biggest ever poaching of elephants inside Orissa's famous Simlipal Tiger Reserve after two wildlife activists of Mayurbhanj district took off the lid on the incident.
