Tigers are being counted by identifying potential routes for tigers to move through the forest and placing automatic cameras on both sides.
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Minister for Forests and Environment Madhav Prasad Chaulagain formally inaugurated the National Tiger Census on Tuesday morning.
Minister Chaulagain announced the start of this year's tiger census by switching on the automatic cameras installed to count tigers in the Sauraha forest area.
The final results of the tiger census are planned to be made public on July 29, Tiger Day, said Haribhadra Acharya, Senior Ecologist and Information Officer of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
The tiger census is being conducted using the camera trapping method, which means that cameras are placed on both sides of the forest to automatically take photos after identifying possible paths for tigers to roam.
The tiger census has been conducted in this way every four/five years since 2009. 250 people will be involved in the census. The technology involved will include placing cameras in the field and downloading photos from the cameras to determine the number. Acharya said that three months will be spent in the field and the remaining time will be spent on technical analysis.
1,100 cameras will be used for the census. Acharya said that apart from the cameras, about three crore rupees will be spent on the tiger census.
Intensive census will be conducted in the main tiger habitats of Chitwan Parsa Complex, Banke Bardiya Complex and Shuklaphanta Laljhadi Complex. The presence of tigers will also be monitored in the Terai area across the Bagmati River up to Koshi Tappu, Acharya said. 'The National Tiger Survey 2082 will be conducted under the leadership of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation with the support of the Department of Soil Conservation, the provincial government, the Nepali Army, and conservation partner organizations National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), WWF Nepal and ZSL Nepal,' the Department of Parks said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
Earlier, in the National Tiger Survey conducted in 2022, 355 tigers were found across the country. Of these, 128 tigers were found in Chitwan, the highest number.
