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Kaziranga camera traps 118 tigers in last 3 yrs
The Pioneer
New Delhi
1 May 2012

The tall grasslands of Kaziranga National Park by the Brahmaputra River in Assam is home to 118 tigers.

This has been detected through camera traps over a period of last three years. This has been brought out in a report called the ‘Tigers Of Kaziranga National Park’ prepared by Aranyak, (an NGO working on conservation and bio-diversity on North-East) and released by the State Forest Department on Monday.

The annual monitoring was done for the three successive years of 2009, 2010 and 2011. The figure of 118 tigers also include sub-adults and six identified tigers that died during the period of study.

The National Tiger Conservation Authority had estimated the population in the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve at 106 with a minimum of 81 and a maximum of 131. The grasslands of Kaziranga was one of the best tiger habitats in the world.

At a time, when tiger conservation is becoming more and more challenging the forests in KNP is still congenial for the tigers. The report, however, points out that with increasing numbers of big cats, it is now imperative that they would disperse reminding in the nearby habitats in Assam and adjoining States needs to be developed.