BHUBANESWAR: Odisha, one of the worst forest fire-affected states, will receive funds from the National Disaster Management ...

Sources in the Forest department said one of the problematic elephants was successfully tranquillised and radio-collared at a forest patch of Dharani Dhar Palli section under Bonai forest range in ...

Under the department’s watch, forests across the country, including in Odisha, withered away. Between 1880 and 1960, India lost 2 million hectares (5 million acres) of forest every decade.

The Odisha forest department has deployed a thermal drone to track the movement of elephants in dense forests of the mineral-rich Keonjhar district at night in a first-of-its-kind experiment in the ...