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Study on leopards to be conducted at Tungareshwar sanctuary

It was this week that the forest department cleared a proposal for the study, which will be carried out by wildlife researcher Nikit Surve from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

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The much-ignored Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary (TWS) will, for the first time, witness a detailed scientific study being conducted there to not only determine the number of leopards, but to also study their feeding habits as well as their prey base.

It was this week that the forest department cleared a proposal for the study, which will be carried out by wildlife researcher Nikit Surve from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

Speaking to dna, chief conservator of forests (CCF) and field director of Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) Vikas Gupta said that the study — titled 'Ecology of leopards in TWS' — will be on the same lines as a study conducted in SGNP last year.

"We have decided to conduct a detailed study on TWS, where no such scientific study has ever been carried out, and this area remains largely unexplored when it comes to data about leopards and their prey base," Gupta said.

Surve, who had previously worked on the SGNP study, said: "This sanctuary and its terrain is completely different from SGNP and hence we will have to use completely different methodology for a lot of things, including for setting up camera traps that will be used to capture images of the leopards."

Surve added that apart from trying to ascertain the number of leopards, the two other important components of the study would be to understand the feeding habits of the leopards at TWS, which will be done by collecting and studying their scat (faecal matter), and to understand their prey base.
 

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