News Excerpt:
State Tiger estimation by the Odisha government has claimed that its forests have 30 Royal Bengal Tigers contrary to the All India Tiger Estimation-2022 report that found the presence of only 20 tigers.
More about All Odisha Tiger Estimation:
- Unhappy with the tiger population estimation in Odisha conducted by NTCA in 2022, the Odisha government had decided to conduct its own estimation across the state.
- The All India Tiger Estimation-2022 report found only 20 tigers in the state.
- The State tiger census was conducted by the state forest department.
- The census was conducted using camera-trapping exercises.
- Camera-trap image based identification of tigers is a scientifically accepted methodology and is also used across the country.
- According to the census, the State has 30 Tigers out of which Similipal Tiger Reserve recorded 27 tigers in the wild.
- The remaining three belong to Hirakud wildlife division (Debrigarh wildlife sanctuary), Paralakhemundi territorial division and Keonjhar territorial and wildlife division.
Similipal Tiger Reserve and melanistic tiger safari:
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