A melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger was killed by poachers in Similipal Tiger Reserve, the world's only habitat for these rare tigers. Authorities arreste ...

A melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger (RBT), one of the rarest subspecies, was killed by poachers in Similipal Tiger Reserve, a habitat that is home to an estimated 20 of these unique black-striped cats.

It was brought back to following the tranquilisation in West Bengal. Accused poachers had ... crime,” STR Director said. The skin of melanistic tiger was recovered when forest department ...

the turnaround in Similipal Tiger Reserve. And tourists sighting the melanistic one. Forget tourists, the staff had not seen tigers for decades. Kudos to the team for bringing this turnaround with ...

BHUBANESWAR/BARIPADA: Skin and other body parts of a rare melanistic tiger, unique to the Similipal landscape, were seized by forest officials from the possession of four persons in the fringe ...

A royal Bengal tiger in a pond at the National Zoological Park, on Global Tiger Day, in New Delhi, Monday, July 29, 2024. PTI In a major crackdown against poachers and illegal traders of body parts of ...

A black panther was spotted in a forest in Kurseong, West Bengal. A forest officer shared the video on social media, calling ...

BARIPADA: Poaching of the melanistic tiger has prompted the State Police to join forces with the Similipal tiger reserve management as both agencies have launched intensive combing in the tiger ...

At last the trap cameras set up by the forest department have spotted the stray male tiger, who had sneaked into Bengal at the same Raika forests in Purulia district , where tigress Zeenat had taken ...

The dispersing female tiger, in process of establishing her territory, strayed into Jharkhand and then West Bengal in the first ... are pseudo-melanistic in Similipal. No other wild habitat ...