ODISHA HAS 40 TIGERS AND 318 LEOPARDS
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The Odisha Government has claimed that the State
houses as many as 40 Royal Bengal tigers and 318 leopards.
The tiger census report of the State Government
which was made public on Wednesday rejected the report of the National Tiger
Conservation Authority (NTCA), which had put the number of big cats at 28 in
the State.
As per the report, Similipal reserve is home to 26
tigers alone, while three are in Karnjia Forest Division, two in Satkosia Tiger
Reserve and three are in Keonjhar Wildlife Division. Four big cats were
enumerated in Sunabeda Wildlife Division and one each in Khariar and
Sundargarh. Of the total 40, there are 13 male, 24 female tigers and three
cubs.
The estimation also found that there are 318
leopards in the State. The State Forests and Environment Department’s Wildlife
wing had used over 20,000 pug impression pads (PIPs) and installed 448 trap
cameras to conduct the enumeration between February and April this year.
Notably, the State Government had decided to
conduct tiger census on its own after the NTCA put the figure of tiger
population at 28 in Odisha in its All India Tiger Estimation Report, 2014
published last year sparking a controversy.
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