Similipal’s black tigers are getting help

Zeenat, a tigress translocated from Maharashtra’s Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve to Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve two years ago, has given birth to four cubs.

Satyasundar Barik speaks to the people behind the high-stakes conservation effort to rescue Similipal’s tigers from a genetic mutation that has fuelled the rise of pseudo-melanism, or dense, thick, merging stripes ...