Annual tiger census begins at Pakke Tiger Reserve

The Sentinel , Monday, November 14, 2016
Correspondent :
Itanagar, Nov 13: After a decade of successful camera trapping, Pakke Tiger Reserve in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh has started its annual exercise from November 1 last. In entire Northeast, Pakke has been the most consistent Tiger Reserve in conducting camera trapping. It all started in 2006, when researchers from Wildlife Institute of India (WII) set up the first camera traps along with field director Tana Tapi, sleeping on the river banks with no proper shelter.

Earlier, camera trapping in Pakke was done by government istitutions such as WII with support from NGO’s like WWF, but now with strengthening of field staffs of STPF (Special Tiger Protection Force) and development of infrastructure such as patrolling roads and anti-poaching camps, Pakke now annually conducts camera trapping without any external support, an official release informed here today.

Pakke acquired new camera traps and other field equipments to conduct camera trapping in newly explored areas as well, earlier where no camera trapping were done. The whole exercise would be about five months long with entire reserve being divided into two blocks-Tippi and Seijosa for easy management and supervision of the exercise.

Prior to the camera trapping, an annual training workshop on the monitoring protocols of Phase IV Monitoring of Tigers, co-predators and prey species was held on October 26.

The goal of this training was to provide hands-on training on the monitoring protocols and usage of field equipments such as GPS, range finder, compass and camera. Likewise every year, this year also the frontline staffs were provided with field gears to conduct camera trapping. After the completion of the camera trapping prizes would be given under three categories- best camera trap image, best anti-poaching activity and rescue & release of wild animal, the release added.

 
SOURCE : http://www.sentinelassam.com/arunachal/story.php?sec=2&subsec=7&id=287962&dtP=2016-11-14&ppr=1
 


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