Indian photographer Prasenjeet Yadav’s image of a black tiger from Odisha’s Similipal National Park has featured on the cover of National Geographic magazine’s upcoming October 2025 edition.<\/p>\n
The striking photograph, captured after months of patient tracking in the dense forests, showcases one of the world’s rarest big cats. Known as pseudo-melanistic tigers, these black tigers are found only in Similipal, where almost half of the reserve’s 30 tigers possess rare genetic mutation.<\/p>\n
“Being out in the forests of Similipal as a National Geographic photographer and Explorer has been a true privilege. I saw firsthand the Odisha Forest Department’s dedicated, on-ground management and the commitment of its officers to safeguarding the future of these majestic tigers.<\/p>\n
“Photographing T12 was intense and humbling, with days and months of patience distilled into a single moment. Now to see that story on a National Geographic Magazine’s international cover is an honour and a reminder of why we document India’s extraordinary wild heart,\u201d Yadav said in a statement.<\/p>\n
National Geographic editor-in-chief Nathan Lump said the story illustrated the complex realities of conservation.<\/p>\n
“The subject of this month’s cover feature, from photographer, writer, and National Geographic Explorer, Prasenjeet Yadav, is a surprising corollary to that success story: the tale of a great male tiger with a rare genetic mutation, which has highlighted what happens when an animal population rebounds but remains sequestered in a reserve, without access to a diverse gene pool,” he added.<\/p>\n
Alok Jain of JioStar, which also oversees the National Geographic channel in India, called the image \u201can elusive and almost mythical sight\u201d that continues the magazine’s tradition of groundbreaking storytelling.<\/p>\n
The rare honour places Yadav among the select group of Indian photographers whose work has adorned the magazine’s cover in its 135-year illustrious history, bringing global attention both to India’s fragile ecosystems and to the people working to safeguard them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian photographer Prasenjeet Yadav’s image of a black tiger from Odisha’s Similipal National Park has featured on the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[127122,127123,127124,127125,127126,127127,648,1032,4788,1033,171,19059,74621,127128,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-236890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-blacktiger","9":"tag-indianwildlifephotography","10":"tag-prasenjeetyadav","11":"tag-raretigers","12":"tag-similipalnationalpark","13":"tag-wildlifeindia","14":"tag-arts","15":"tag-arts-and-design","16":"tag-conservation","17":"tag-design","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-nationalgeographic","20":"tag-odisha","21":"tag-tigerconservation","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115226535547859494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}