ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[Rishi]

A follow-up of #1278, the final phase of tiger census in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve has also been concluded recently. 

At Pilibhit reserve, tiger numbers up from 38 to 46

Divisional forest officer Kailash Prakash had said in March, after the completion of 1st phase, that the camera traps have produced a bit more than 18 pictures of tiger cubs. "The tiger census could go up to 50 this year, while the previous year's computation had projected presence of almost 40 tigers in PTR," he added.

A three-member team of WWF's biologists consisting of Dr Mudit Gupta, Dr Kamlesh Maurya and Ashish Vishta, undertook the process of matching and comparing tigers' stripes to figure out the total number of felines, after three more phases of counter-checking.

Counting is now done on landscape basis, which includes the forest areas of south Kheri division, Kishanpur wildlife sanctuary and a part of Dudhwa tiger reserve that has contiguity with PTR.
Studying the landscape for census is done keeping in view the possibility of inter-region movement and migration of tigers.

Study will now be moving on to Dudhwa & then to rest of the Terai Arc Tiger Landscape, in cooperation with Nepal along the borders...

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