Bhubaneswar: PCCF Wildlife, Susanta Nanda is happy with Tigress Zeenat entering into Similipal. His sincere efforts are paying dividends for Wildlife Odisha.
Zeenat, another tigress brought from Tadoba-Andheri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra to Odisha as part of the State Government’s tiger relocation project, has been released into a soft enclosure of Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district today.
Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife), Susanta Nanda in a post on X, said, “Happy to inform that the second tigress-Zeenat-brought from TATR in an arduous journey of fourty hrs to boost our gene pool has been released to the soft enclosure at 9.30 AM today.”
PCCF Shri Nanda congratulated the entire team engaged in successful translocation of the Royal Bengal Tiger (RBT).
A 10-member team from STR brought the tigress, aged around three years, after a struggle of more than one week.
It was captured on Wednesday evening and shifted in a special vehicle to STR on Thursday evening. After reaching Similipal, the tigress was kept under observation for 12 hours and released to an enclosure this morning.
Like Jamuna, the second tigress will be kept in the soft-enclosure for about one to two weeks for observation before being released into the wild, officials said.
Earlier, on October 27, the first tigress from the same reserve in Maharashtra reached Odisha and was released into the wild last Saturday. She was named Yamuna.