5 months ago
1
:
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department has announced that the archetypal signifier of the All India Tiger Estimation (AITE) 2026 would statesman connected January 5, and proceed successful seven-day cycles crossed assorted wood divisions until the extremity of February.
As portion of the world’s largest wildlife monitoring exercise, AITE is conducted erstwhile each 4 years by the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the Wildlife Institute of India to measure tigers, co-predators specified arsenic leopards, chaotic dogs and hyaenas, and to estimation mega herbivore prey-base, including gaur, sambar deer, spotted deer, and barking deer.
It besides includes elaborate situation appraisal done motion surveys, enactment transects, camera trapping exercises and familial sampling.
Tamil Nadu, which is location to 5 tiger reserves — Kalakad Mundanthurai, Anamalai, Mudumalai, Sathyamangalam, and Srivilliputhur-Megamalai — volition enactment successful this nationwide effort.
Tiger population
The State’s tiger colonisation has accrued from 264 successful 2018 to 306 successful 2022, arsenic per erstwhile estimates.
An authoritative merchandise from the Chief Wildlife Warden Rakesh Kumar Dogra said the workout would screen each tiger reserves, different tiger habitats, and backstage estates with important carnivore presence. Frontline staff, volunteers, and exertion specified arsenic camera traps and the M-STrIPES monitoring strategy would beryllium deployed.
Those funny successful participating could registry with the respective tiger reserve offices successful advance, the merchandise added.
