The carcass of a blackbuck was found on Friday in Ganjam district, the only habitat of the endangered animal in Odisha, forest officials said. Forest officials recovered the carcass of a three-year-old female blackbuck at Kandha Kharida under Kabisurya Nagara forest range, about 50 km from here.
With this at least 11 blackbucks have died in Bhetanai area of the forest range in the last two months.
At least 28 blackbucks have died in the area since March this year. As many as 18 and 21 blackbucks had died in 2016-17 and 2015-16 respectively.
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