Tiger Census Concludes in Shuklaphanta National Park

Kanchanpur. The tiger census has been completed in Shuklaphanta National Park, Kanchanpur.

Conservation Officer Purushottam Wagle stated that the tiger counting process under the National Tiger Survey program has been concluded in the Shuklaphanta-Laljhadi-Jogbudha complex.

Field work for the national tiger census, which began in the last week of Falgun using the 'camera trapping' method, has finished, and cameras are currently being collected. "Cameras placed within Shuklaphanta and the Division Forest Office have been retrieved," he said. "The images from these cameras will be analyzed to determine the tiger population."

A tiger census is conducted here every four years. For this census, 520 automatic cameras were installed, supported by a technical team of 77 people. According to the 2022 national census, there were 36 tigers in the park.

The park office conducts an internal tiger survey every year. According to the park's internal survey, there are 43 tigers. Conservation officers estimate that the number of tigers in this national census may be similar. "There are 43 tigers in the park's internal survey; the number may not have increased significantly in a single year," said Conservation Officer Wagle. "The national census this time may reflect that same figure."