India’s tiger census sets world record for being 'largest camera trap wildlife survey'

India’s tiger estimation for year 2018 has been awarded Guinness World Record on July 11 for being largest camera-trap wildlife survey. According to Guinness Book of World Record, fourth edition of census was ‘most comprehensive’ to date, in terms of both resource and data amassed. While sharing news of ‘great moment’ on Twitter, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said that country fulfilled its aim to double tiger numbers four years before target. 

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While speaking to ANI, environment minister said that India’s census of tigers entered Guinness World Records because officials installed more cameras to monitor m as compared to or countries. He furr said that tiger population is nearly 70 per cent of world’s tiger population. 

As per government press te, “ fourth iteration of survey – conducted in 2018-19 - was most comprehensive to date, in terms of both resource and data amassed. Camera traps were placed in 26,838 locations across 141 different sites and surveyed an effective area of 121,337 square kilometres. In total, camera traps captured 34,858,623 photographs of wildlife”. 

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Tiger population increased by one-third

Since 2006, government has been conducting census every four years led by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Wildlife Institute of India (WII) with cooperation from various state forest departments and conservation NGOs. survey aims at arriving at a nationwide assessment into county’s population and habitat of tigers. With an ‘unprecedented camera trap us’, back in 2018, ‘Status of Tigers in India’ assessment also conducted foot surveys. 

While assessment of foot survey was carried out over three phases, government ted that positive outcome of survey was that it concluded that India’s tiger population had increased by roughly one-third, which is from 2,226 in 2014, to 2,927 in 2018. officials also ted that even with an increase in tiger population, officials still need to improve ‘corridors’ between isolated pockets of tiger territory, reduce poaching, and build up prey numbers through habitat restoration. 

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