Balasore: An official of the forest department on Wednesday informed that the team has collected evidence about the presence of three tigers in Odisha’s Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary.
Reportedly, during the enumeration of the big cats at the Kuldiha Sanctuary in Balasore district, the officials spotted the pugmarks in the reserve forest.
According to reports, three different imprints of the species of Tigers were spotted in different places which indicates the presence of big cats. However, it was yet to be ascertained whether the marks are that of Royal Bengal tigers or leopards.
Currently, there is no account of the official figures of the tigers in the Kuldiha. Meanwhile, the headcount exercise is still underway which was started on November 26 and will end on December 3.
On the other hand, trap cameras were installed in the reserver forest in order to capture the presence of the tigers in the forest.
Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary, one of the major Odisha forests spread across 272.75 km² in the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. It is linked with Simlipal National Park via the Sukhupada and Nato hill ranges. It is classified as an Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests ecoregion.
