News Excerpt:

State Tiger estimation by the Odisha government has claimed that its forests have 30 Royal Bengal Tigers contrary to the All India Tiger Estimation-2022 report that found the presence of only 20 tigers.

More about All Odisha Tiger Estimation:

• Unhappy with the tiger population estimation in Odisha conducted by NTCA in 2022, the Odisha government had decided to conduct its own estimation across the state.
• The All India Tiger Estimation-2022 report found only 20 tigers in the state.
• The State tiger census was conducted by the state forest department.
• The census was conducted using camera-trapping exercises.
• Camera-trap image based identification of tigers is a scientifically accepted methodology and is also used across the country.
• According to the census, the State has 30 Tigers out of which Similipal Tiger Reserve recorded 27 tigers in the wild.
• The remaining three belong to Hirakud wildlife division (Debrigarh wildlife sanctuary), Paralakhemundi territorial division and Keonjhar territorial and wildlife division.