Guwahati: Field Exercises for the Rawa Rawa Eastern Census that are vulnerable to begin in Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR) on Tuesday for the first time since 2018 after three awesome floods.
Director Park P Sívakumar said this year’s census has an interest in the light of the Dahsyat flood that brought in a disaster on the UNESCO World Heritage Site in the male in the past three years.
The last census of this sub-species was carried out in the National Park in 2018.
After the number of samples, the results would be stated on Wednesday.
Exercise began on Monday with a briefing.
“According to the last estimate, we have 907 deer and then there are three big floods in Kaziranga.
We want to check whether the population of the East Swamp swamp has risen or down,” Sivakumar told Toi on Tuesday.
He said during the last estimation, the census was carried out in the core area of Kaziranga National Park – Assam East Wildlife Division.
But this year, he said, the survey was being carried out on a much larger scale in a side by side too.
“This time, we are conducting a census in East Assam, Biswanath and Wildlife Nagaon division from the Knpr.
Sub-species have spread to a side by side and thus, the census will provide an idea of how all landscapes are used by it,” he said.
During the last census, the 480 km square area was covered, while this time it would be around 1,000 square kilometers.
“Deer population is basically concentrated in certain bags,” said Director Knptr.
The total of 35 elephants were pressed into the census, where independent enumerators including the researchers helped the Ministry of Forestry.
The sources of the forest department say that flooding can cause a decrease in population but this will not be the cause of worries.
Ravindra Sharma, research official in the park, said most of these sub-species were mainly found in Kaziranga, although also distributed in Manas National Park in Assam.
Hog Deer has the highest population among deer species in Kaziranga, accounting of more than 40,000 populations.
But East Rawa Rawa remains vulnerable.
Open space around the water body is the habitat of the East Rawa swamp and thus, this sub-species is quite vulnerable to flooding.
“Kaziranga has the highest population of pork deer and is a main tiger food,” Sharma added.
Assam: Swamp Rawa Census in Kaziranga National Park after 3 years
