Tigers Found In Non-Protected Areas
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 32
No. 2,
February 2012
In the past three weeks, shots of four individual tigers have been captured in the cameras installed at Uttarakhand's Nandhor Valley. The area, which once had a sizeable tiger population years ago, was believed to have lost all its tigers to poaching and such human intervention.
Wildlife experts working in the region have found evidence of more tigers but they are waiting to capture the images on camera.
Wildlife group WWF-India, which carries out the monitoring here, are in the process of furnishing a report to the National Tiger Conservation Authority. Any tiger sighting in areas other than protected areas subsequently gets included in the NTCA's monitoring network. Read the full report here.
Source: Avishek G. Dastidar, Indian Express, New Delhi.
