Madhya Pradesh
All India Tiger Estimation Training Completed in Madhya Pradesh
- 13 Sep 2021
- 2 min read
Why in News
- On September 12, 2021, a two-day training of circle level nodal officers for All India Tiger Estimation 2022 was completed at Pachmarhi, Satpura Tiger Reserve, Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh.
Key Points
- All India Tiger Assessment is done every four years. This year this assessment will run for three months from October to December.
- Tiger estimation is done in three phases. In this, in the first phase, first of all the evidence related to the presence of non-vegetarian and vegetarian wild animals in all the forest vets of Madhya Pradesh and other states is collected.
- In the second phase, scientific study of the GIS map and in the third phase, photographs of wild animals are taken by placing camera traps in the forest areas.
- This year tiger data will be collected in a paperless manner through a special mobile app M Stripe Ecological.
- Along with this, emphasis will be laid on the enumeration of herbivorous-non-vegetarian wildlife in a phased manner in the regional forest divisions and corporation areas in addition to the Tiger Reserve. For this, field staff are being trained for tiger census.
