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The Forest Department has commenced mentation for the All India Tiger Estimation 2025-26 that volition commence connected December 1.
The sixth tiger census volition beryllium conducted crossed the federation to find the existent colonisation and organisation of tigers. The enumeration volition instrumentality spot successful 3 phases betwixt December and April 2026.
The archetypal signifier volition tally for 8 days crossed 37 wood divisions successful the State, including Periyar and Parambikulam tiger reserves. During this phase, the tract unit volition traverse 673 designated blocks and grounds grounds of tigers and different carnivores, herbivores and situation prime utilizing the M-StrIPES (Monitoring System for Tigers – Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) mobile application.
The 2nd signifier volition impact investigation of information collected during the archetypal fieldwork, portion the 3rd signifier of camera trapping volition beryllium implemented successful Periyar and Parambikulam reserves and adjoining forests. Camera traps volition beryllium deployed crossed 1,860 grids of 2 sq.km. each to seizure images and different technological information indispensable for idiosyncratic tiger recognition and close colonisation estimation. Field information postulation and camera trapping activities volition proceed until March 2026.
All collected information volition beryllium compiled and analysed by the Periyar and Parambikulam Tiger Conservation Foundations, pursuing which the last study volition beryllium submitted to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) by April 2026.
The erstwhile nationalist tiger census was conducted successful 2022, which recorded 3,682 tigers crossed India, including 213 tigers successful Kerala.
