Tiger numbers up, but the black tiger of Odisha on verge of extinction

In all the roars and cheers over the upswing in tiger numbers, the story of Odisha’s black tiger has got a little lost. The melanistic tiger – a rare gene pool on which the black stripes are far more prominent than the Royal Bengal Tiger’s – are found only in Odisha. And their numbers are sliding fast.

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