Tiger census in Sundarbans to begin next week
BSS
A census using camera trapping method for the Sundarbans tigers will begin from last week of Novembe, reports BSS from Khulna. The census will continue for the next three months installing 300 cameras in the Sundarbans, Divisional Forest Officer of Sundarbans West Zone M Sayeed Ali said.
Two American experts of Washington-based Conservation Biology Institution will monitor the census under the Bengal Tiger Conservation Activity Project, according to the forest official. The forest official claimed that tiger breeding has increased in the worlds largest mangrove forest since more tiger cubs are spotted at Nilkomol, Kachikhali and Satkhira ranges of the forest. Talking to the news agency, forest conservator Zaheer Uddin Ahmed said, We will monitor activities of each tiger, tigress and tiger cubs through camera trapping method. The census will begin at Satkhira and would continue at least for three months, he said, adding that tiger census in Khulna and Bagerhat districts will begin by June 2017.
