MP Tiger Count Was Flawed, Says Ministry
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 7,
July 2011
"Our preliminary study has found higher tiger population than projected in the estimation," said P R Sinha, Director of Wildlife Institute of India. "The new estimate will be part of the next year's tiger census".
Karnataka's additional principal conservator of forests M S Swaminathan also questioned the estimation saying that if tiger reserves in the state have been rated very good on the 30 performance indices how the increase in big cat population is much less than the national average.
The national average is about 20 % whereas in case of Karnataka the increase in tiger population was only just five. "Does the government of India wants to say that 30 to 40 tigers have vanished from the state," he said. Read the full report here.
Source: Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, New Delhi.
