ORISSA WITH its prosperous biodiversity and diverse ecosystem makes a unique place, where biodiversity has always been an integral part of the socio-cultural aspect of the local people. But alarmingly in recent days, its amazing wildlife and unique ecosystem is battling the warm embrace of rapid climate change, the toxic taste of accumulating chemical pollution, and mixed blessing of escalating development of its natural resources. Never before have wild animals and habitat faced the kind of threat they face today and just as dangerous is the threat to the survival of species from habitat destruction. Ecological destruction due to lopsided development projects and organised poaching has threatened the very existence of the species. The current paradigm of development has resulted not only in the depletion of natural resources of the state, but also threatens to wipe out irreplaceable ecosystems.