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Pilibhit Tiger Reserve Census: Counting of tigers has been started in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. Under this calculation, all five ranges of the Tiger Reserve will be monitored through cameras for 35 days. Modern trap cameras have been installed in all ranges. The data will be collected and sent to the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. Pilibhit Tiger Reserve has already received the TX2 award at the international level for doubling the number of tigers.
Pilibhit. To make an accurate assessment of tigers in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, their census was started from Monday. All the five ranges of the Tiger Reserve will be monitored with cameras for 35 consecutive days from Monday. Modern trap cameras have been setup in all five ranges for tiger census. After compiling the data for 35 days, it will be sent to the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. The work of All India Tiger Census-2026 is going on at a fast pace in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, which has received TX2 award at the international level for doubling the number of tigers. This time this census is special, because on the instructions of the state government, along with tigers, leopards and other herbivorous wildlife will also be counted using scientific method.
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Teams doing tiger estimation in Mahof, Barahi, Mala, Haripur and Deoria ranges of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve have already been trained. Trained teams will collect scientific evidence (pugmarks, scat, camera footage) of the presence of tigers in the forest as per the prescribed protocol. In the 2022 census, more than 71 tigers were found in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. But now the situation has changed. This time the tiger census will be completely paperless. The teams doing tiger estimation will enter the information through M-Stripe app, in which the data of pugmarks, scratches, feces and hunting marks of the tigers will be fed into the app.
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According to the Tiger Reserve Administration, all the five ranges have been divided into 308 grids for tiger counting. The size of a grid is fixed at 02 square km. A pair of cameras have been installed in each grid. In this way, 616 cameras have been installed in all five ranges. Camera trapping will be done for 35 consecutive days as per the protocol of National Tiger Conservation Authority. During this time, photographs of tigers will be captured from cameras installed at marked points. After camera trapping, data compilation will be done, on the basis of which the experts of Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun will estimate the number of tigers and other wild animals.
