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The biannual six-day post-monsoon wildlife monitoring workout to estimation carnivore and herbivore populations began astatine the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) present connected Monday (December 29, 2025).
As portion of Phase IV monitoring of tiger reserves by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), surveys are conducted doubly a year: a pre-monsoon survey betwixt June and July and a post-monsoon survey during December and January.
The existent workout began connected Monday crossed 4 ranges of the Hasanur Forest Division and six ranges of the Sathyamangalam Forest Division, some nether the STR. A full of 304 wood personnel, divided into 76 teams of 4 members each, person been deployed for the survey, which volition reason connected January 3, 2026.
During the archetypal 3 days, teams volition papers indirect signs of carnivores and herbivores, including elephants and gaurs. In the consequent 3 days, enactment transect surveys volition beryllium conducted successful the mornings and evenings. Under this method, parallel transect lines are laid astatine fixed intervals and walked simultaneously to grounds nonstop sightings of herbivores.
Officials said details specified arsenic the beingness of co-predators, pugmarks, carnal carcasses and histrion bark peeling would beryllium recorded utilizing the M-STrIPES (Monitoring System for Tigers – Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) mobile application.
The information collected done the exertion volition beryllium analysed by the NTCA, pursuing which estimates of the colonisation of tigers, elephants, leopards and different chaotic animals successful the STR volition beryllium arrived at.
