On Friday, Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan spoke about the indications of a rise in tiger numbers and called for a bigger social movement to enhance tiger conservation
As the world celebrates Global Tiger Day, India looks forward to some bright developments as preliminary indications from the all India tiger population estimation are pointing to a potential rise in tiger numbers. On Friday, Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan spoke about the indications of a rise in tiger numbers and called for a bigger social movement to enhance tiger conservation.
DNA had reported last July that during the Phase-IV estimation, presence of nearly 1,700 individual tigers has been established in 46 of the 50 tiger reserves using the camera-trapping survey.
Phase-IV estimation is held each year to monitor tiger source populations while the more comprehensive tiger population estimation is held once every four years, over three phases. Harsh Vardhan was referring to this quadrennial exercise. Officials from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) said most states have already got a lot of inputs and they have begun sharing it with the NTCA. The final results, though, would be out only in the first quarter of 2019 after all the data is processed and put through scientific rigour.
The on-going estimation began in December 2017 and is bigger in scope than the last one. The country-wide exercise will see installation of as many as 15,000 camera traps to capture tiger photos and an area of 4 lakh sq km will be surveyed across 50 tiger reserves.
The 2018 estimation will also see installation of camera traps in states of the Northeast region for the first time, other than Assam, even at places as high as 3,200 m in Arunachal Pradesh to improve the efficacy of population estimation.
HIGHEST NUMBER OF BIG CATS
As per the previous all India tiger estimation, there are 2,226 tigers in India’s forests, making up of nearly 70% of the global tiger population.
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