Bhopal: Tiger census will be carried out in 40 reserves across the country from November, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh Wednesday said. "The big cat census in the 40 tiger reserves of the country will commence from November and the exercise will end in a year's time," Jairam told reporters here. He said that the latest census was being done on the basis of tiger landscape, in which Madhya Pradesh lost its tiger state tag to Karnataka.
About the Madhya Pradesh government's claim that there were more tigers in the world-famous Kanha Reserve than revealed in the latest census, he said, "There was no politics in the census and nothing should be read into it."
About Madhya Pradesh's Panna Reserve that had become devoid of tigers two years ago, he said that the translocation of the striped animal to the reserve is underway and there were around eight big cats. "There are some issues regarding people, which need to be addressed in Panna," he said, adding people around the reserves play an important part in tiger conservation.
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