Dudhwa tiger census to include counts in peripheral areas

According to a TOI report, WWF has appointed a local NGO to carry out tiger census in fields surrounding Dudhwa Tiger sanctuary near India - Nepal border. It is pertinent to note that a national tiger census is also going tobe carried out across 28 national parks in India in October this year following the first scientific camera trap method based census carried out in 2007 which put the tiger numbers in the country at around 1400.

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