Challenges in tiger monitoring as camera trapping and efforts of technical teams fail to identify them
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The man-eating tiger, which has been active since a month ago, has not been found in the forest area of Bara, which is connected to the Parsa National Park. Jitpur Simra sub-metropolitan city - 22 Amlekhganj, after the death of Chandra Bahadur Bhlon due to a tiger attack on June 4, the search for the tiger was started.
According to Santosh Kumar Bhagat, Information Officer of the National Park Office, Although Niku did not fall into the forest area of the , taking into account the demands and requests of the locals, the tiger was not caught even though cameras were installed in possible areas for identifying, controlling and monitoring the tiger. "We installed 8 cameras in the affected area and tried trapping," he said, "but the tiger was not captured even once in any of the cameras." After that, when tigers started damaging livestock in the affected area, Bhagat said that the technical team was again withdrawn and the attempt of darting using 'live baiting' technique failed. Bhagat said that there has been a report of seeing the footprints of a local tiger in the affected area recently.
In Parsa National Nikunj, there were 8 tigers in Nikunj in 2007, but in 2022 there were 41 tigers. Lately the park The conflict between humans and tigers has increased greatly in the nearby human settlement and 5 tigers have been killed in the span of two years.
Tiger counting program is being conducted again this year. Due to efforts made in the field of conservation, it is estimated that the number of tigers in the park will be around 55 to 60.
