{"id":16608,"date":"2023-12-22T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/presence-of-black-tigers-only-found-in-odishas-similipal-centre-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T11:21:57","slug":"presence-of-black-tigers-only-found-in-odishas-similipal-centre-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/presence-of-black-tigers-only-found-in-odishas-similipal-centre-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Presence of black tigers only found in Odisha\u2019s Similipal: Centre &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bhubaneswar: Melanistic or black tigers have been sighted only in Odisha\u2019s Similipal, revealed Minister of State for Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change Ashwini Kumar Choubey at Rajya Sabha yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The minister made this revelation while replying to a query of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Prashanta Nanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMelanistic tigers have been recorded only in Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha. As per the 2022 cycle of the All India Tiger Estimation, a total of 16 tigers were recorded in Similipal, out of which 10 were melanistic,\u201d said the minister.<\/p>\n<p>The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has issued a standard operating procedure for active management and rehabilitation of tigers from source areas at landscape level, added the minister.<\/p>\n<p>Based on genetic composition, the Similipal Tiger Reserve has been identified as a distinct genetic cluster for conservation, he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Funding assistance is provided under the ongoing centrally-sponsored scheme of Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats (CSS-IDWH) to Similipal for conservation of tigers, raising awareness on the big cats &amp; other wildlife conservation, habitat management, protection, eco-development, human resource &amp; infrastructure development and voluntary village relocation, said the minister.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre has released Rs 659.82 lakh to Similipal in 2022-23 fiscal while the amount was Rs 766.06 lakh in 2021-22, Rs 539.39 lakh in 2020-21, Rs 660.53 lakh in 2019-20 and Rs 650.88 lakh in 2018-19 fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>The BJD MP had sought to know details regarding the black tigers recorded in different forests in the country, including in Similipal and Kandhamal forests area in Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>He also sought the minister\u2019s replies on government action to protect the black tigers and the funds sanctioned for this purpose.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bhubaneswar: Melanistic or black tigers have been sighted only in Odisha\u2019s Similipal, revealed Minister of State for Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change Ashwini Kumar Choubey at Rajya Sabha yesterday. The minister made this revelation while replying to a query of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Prashanta Nanda. \u201cMelanistic tigers have been recorded only in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16610,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608\/revisions\/16610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}