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The census of tigers will soon begin in Nepal’s Chitwan National Park, adjacent to the Valmiki Tiger Reserve under West Champaran. This calculation will be completed in the next three months starting from December 18. This time the calculations will be done by combining Chitwan and Parsa. Tigers will be counted through camera trapping technology using 600 automated cameras.
West Champaran: The work of counting tigers is going to start very soon in Chitwan National Park of Nepal, adjacent to the border of Valmiki Tiger Reserve. According to the information received, before starting the counting, a two-day training workshop has been organized on 16th and 17th December, in which about 150 participants are participating. Since Chitwan National Park shares its border with Valmiki Tiger Reserve under West Champaran district of India, hence the border forests of both the countries. This work is considered very important from the point of view of wildlife conservation in the estate.
Counting will be done simultaneously in both Chitwan and Parsa.
According to information received from Avinash Thapa, Information Officer of Chitwan National Nikunj, all the members who received training will be sent to the area from December 18. There they will work on monitoring tigers and collecting data as per the prescribed method. The interesting thing is that this time the calculations will be done by linking both Chitwan and Parsa forests together, which will jointly provide information about the actual number of tigers.
This is how the calculations will be done in 3 months
Let us tell you that a total of 900 grids have been made for the census, which have been divided into three parts. A pair of automatic cameras will be installed in every grid of 02 km, which will remain active for 20 days and record the count of tigers. If experts are to be believed, the tiger count will be started simultaneously in Chitwan along with Parsa, Banke, Bardiya and Shuklaphanta National Park. This entire work will be completed in the next three months. For this, National Park and Wildlife Conservation Department have together allocated the budget.
600 automatic cameras will be installed
Wildlife expert Abhishek, who has information about Nepal’s forests and the creatures living in them along with Valmiki Tiger Reserve, says that according to the last census done in the year 2022, about 335 tigers reside in the forest areas of Nepal. The big thing is that out of these, 128 tigers were recorded only in Chitwan Nikunj. This time too, about 600 automatic cameras were used using ‘camera trapping’ technology. They will be monitored in major forest areas.
Every tiger’s stripes are different
The surprising thing is that just as the fingerprints of every human being are completely different from each other, similarly the stripes on the body of a tiger are also completely different from each other. With the help of these stripes, experts count them.
