ALL INDIA TIGER ESTIMATION 2018 "EMPOWER IAS"

In news:

• The fourth cycle of the All India Tiger Estimation 2018, results of which were declared to the nation on Global Tiger Day last year has entered the Guinness World Record for being the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey.

 

All India Tiger Estimation 2018:

• The fourth cycle of the All India Tiger Estimation 2018 had counted 2,967 tigers, which is about 75% of the global tiger population.
• The data is said to be the most comprehensive to date, in terms of both resource and data amassed.
• For the estimation exercise camera traps (outdoor photographic devices fitted with motion sensors that start recording when an animal passes by) were placed in 26,838 locations across 141 different sites and surveyed an effective area of 1,21,337 sq.km.
• Of the total photographs captured of wildlife 76,651 of them were that of tigers and 51,777 of leopards; the remainder were other native fauna.
• From the photographs obtained, 2,461 individual tigers (excluding cubs) were identified using stripe­ pattern­ recognition software.

 

 

About:

• The citation at the Guinness World Record website reads- “The fourth iteration of the survey – conducted in 2018-19 - was the most comprehensive to date, in terms of both resource and data amassed.
• The All India Tiger Estimation done quadrennially is steered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority with technical backstopping from the Wildlife Institute of India and implemented by State Forest Departments and partners.
• The latest results of 2018 had shown that India now has an estimated 2967 tigers out of which 2461 individual tigers have been photo captured, a whopping 83 % of the tiger population, highlighting the comprehensive nature of the survey.
   
• With this number, India is home to nearly 75% of the global tiger population and has already fulfilled its resolve of doubling tiger numbers, made at St. Petersburg in 2010, much before the target year of 2022.