Five cameras installed during the tiger census that began on December 15 have been lost, while two cameras have been broken by elephants.
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Seven cameras installed for tiger census in Chitwan National Park have been damaged.
Five cameras installed during the tiger census that began on December 3 have been lost and two cameras have been broken by elephants.
According to Avinash Thapa Magar, the park's information officer, three of the cameras installed during the tiger census were lost in the Thumsi area and two in the Tamaspur area.
He said that two cameras in the Tiger Tops area were broken by elephants. The tiger census was conducted by installing cameras in about 286 grids here.
According to Magar, while picking up the cameras after completing the first part of the census, it was found that the cameras installed at three places were lost and damaged by elephants.
The tiger census has been started by forming a block of Chitwan and Parsa National Parks. According to him, the first part of the census was made up of the Barandabhar area through Triveni, Amaltari, Kasara.
Now, the second part of the tiger census has been started. In the second part, enumerators have set up 13 camps.
Under this section, cameras have been installed in the area from Sauraha, Khagendramalli to Lothar Pratappur and Harda, Bote Simara, Swameshwor, Bagai, Ambuwa to Sikari Bas. The tiger count has been divided into 336 grids. 150 enumerators have been deployed for the count. According to Thapa, tigers will be counted by placing cameras in one section for two weeks.
Tigers are being counted in the Chitwan-Parsa block by creating 958 grids. Earlier, in the 2022 tiger count, data was made public that there were 355 adult tigers in Nepal. In that count, 128 tigers were found in Chitwan, 125 in Bardiya National Park, 25 in Banke National Park, 41 in Parsa and 36 in Shuklaphanta.
