The Virginia opossum (Didel-phis virginiana), a marsupial, is native to North America and is often considered to be untamable. There are local instances of young opossums being raised as pets ...

Armed police forces deployed in Similipal Tiger Reserve, Odisha, to assist forest personnel in combating wildlife poaching, following the suspected killing of a melanistic Royal Bengal tiger. The ...

Last year, Vivien Deal-Sosa was studying state symbols with her fourth grade class in Chesterfield, New Hampshire when she had an idea: why not make the Virginia opossum, North America’s only ...

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 ...

A melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger was killed by poachers in Similipal Tiger Reserve, the world's only habitat for these rare tigers. Authorities arrested four men and seized the hide, nails ...

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 ...

But they did not confess to their crime,” STR Director said. The skin of melanistic tiger was recovered when forest department personnel had raided a few houses in Tentulia village on January 12.

Baripada: In a major crackdown against poachers and illegal traders of body parts of wild animals, forest officials arrested four people from the Similipal forest in Odisha and seized the skin and ...

Baripada: Days after two persons were arrested on poaching charges along with seizing claws and teeth of a melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger from Similipal in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, forest ...

In the first instance of killing of a rare melanistic tiger, the Odisha Forest authorities, on Wednesday, arrested four wildlife offenders and seized the skin of a slain big cat in Similipal Tiger ...

Baripada: Forest department officials have seized the skin of a rare melanistic tiger and arrested four poachers from Similipal wildlife sanctuary in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district. As per sources, the ...