In one of the biggest ever actions against poachers, the Odisha police have arrested 21 people and seized 165 illegal arms — including 158 single barrel muzzle loaders (SBML), three pistols, and two small hand guns — in and around the Similipal Tiger Reserve over the past month.
Similipal is one of the largest tracts of contiguous forest with an invaluable ecosystem, in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district. The reserve, however, has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons.
