Odisha's Forest Department arrests poachers targeting rare melanistic tigers in Similipal, home to unique pseudo-melanistic tigers.

Bhubaneswar: A melanistic leopard with its cub was sighted in Nayagarh district on Friday, Odisha's chief wildlife warden Prem Kumar Jha said in a post on X. "A rare melanistic leopard with a cub ...

Bhubaneshwar: A rare melanistic leopard was spotted with a cub in Nayagarh forest in Odisha, an official said on Friday. Sharing the footage of the rare black leopard, Divisional Forest Officer Khyama ...

A rare melanistic leopard and its cub were spotted in a forest in Odisha's Nayagarh district. The sighting was captured via camera trap, highlighting the region's biodiversity. Such leopards are ...

An estimated 13 adult tigers (seven females and six males) are pseudo-melanistic in Similipal. No other wild habitat in the world has pseudo-melanistic tigers.

Another source said the plan is to reintroduce four tigers - one male and three females - into the Cardamom hills in the southwestern region of Cambodia. Black or pseudo-melanistic tigers exist ...

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 their blood & sweat," wrote Nanda on his X ...