PTI | 08:03 PM,Mar 09,2011
New Delhi, Mar 9 (PTI) Tiger census will be out this month end amidst expectations that there will be "good news", government said today."We are releasing our latest tiger census on 28th of this month. We hope that we will have good news. I haven't seen the report yet," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told reporters here. The census was carried out by installing cameras at strategic points, like water bodies in the forests, as also in the respective territories of the big cats and a computer analysis was done to collate the data. The 2007 census had shown a sharp fall in the number of tigers in 'protected areas'--reserves, national parks and widelife sanctuaries-in 19 states across the country.According to it, India had only 1,411 wild cats left in its forests.
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