Bhagat predicts that the number of tigers in the park will increase in this year's census.
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Tiger census work is set to begin in the Chitwan-Parsa Complex from the second week of December.
Parsa National Park Conservation and Information Officer Santosh Kumar Bhagat said that training will be organized in Chitwan from Poush 1 for technicians/enumerators who will be deployed for the census work under the auspices of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Department.
After the training, the enumerators will be deployed to install cameras to count tigers in various places in the park. Both the parks will be divided into different blocks and the census will be conducted in a phased manner.
It has not yet been decided whether the census will start from Parsa Park east of the complex or Nawalparasi west. It is estimated that the tiger census will be conducted in both the complexes for one and a half months.
Tiger census is conducted in parks and reserves where tigers are present every 4 years. Due to the efforts made for the conservation and increase of tigers, the number of tigers in this park has increased by 10 times in 12 years.
In the census conducted in 2009/10, there were only 4 adult tigers in the park. A similar survey conducted in 2013 showed that there were 7 adult tigers in the park. In the 2018 census, 18 adult tigers were found in the park. In the 2022 census, 41 adult tigers were found in Parsa Park.
Bhagat predicts that the number of tigers in the park will increase in this census. ‘It is estimated that the number of tigers in the park has increased,’ he said, ‘but since tigers have been seen in various areas of the park, the number of tigers has definitely increased.’
Recently, tigers have also been seen in the community forests of Bara and Rautahat, which are connected to the park. The park is spread over an area of 627 square kilometers, including Parsa, Bara and Makawanpur.
