SensusNagpur Tigernagpur: Tadoba and Andhari Tiger Reserve Management wrote to the National Tiger Conservation Authority to attract the transect line methodology for the enumeration of tigers.
Under this method, forest guards, workers and officials must walk several kilometers in the core area full of carnivores.
On the last Saturday, forest guards, Swati Dhumne was killed by Tigress ‘Maya’ while he and the team three members were putting the transect line.
For the fifth cycle of all estimates (aite) India.
As a result, which will reveal the number of tigers in this country must be stated next year.
It will also vomit the presence of other carnivores, prey species and tiger habitat.
Dipamed with criticism of lack of safety for staff, park management immediately suspended training.
“The Transek line methodology was introduced in 2006 when the entire Tiger population Sariska was removed.
In the last 15 years, several new technologies such as sophisticated camera trap, MSTRIP, GIS-based patrol modules, drones, thermal imaging etc.
have been introduced.
We need to modify our techniques Which gives an important meaning for staff safety, “said Tadoba officials.
Willildlife activists say forest workers are betting every day and “NTCA must ensure part of the exercise”.
“We must enter for a 100% camera trap,” they said.
Highly placed sources say that protective places do not enter new data.
“Nothing made the official data phase IV 2021.
It was finished summer and this data was compiled in August-September.
This same data will be used for Aite-2022.” Those who are involved in exercise saying this data will be used to understand the density Just carnivores.
It was being done because NTCA had set a tight deadline to complete the fifth cycle and the results must be announced on July 29, 2022, which was the day of the world tiger, they said.
Some wildlife experts say the transect method the line is better applied in an open landscape and not in heavy wooded forests such as Tadoba.
“Probability does not provide a number per species per field per season and accuracy cannot be counted.
In addition, human errors cannot be avoided,” they said.
Wildlife Conservationists and biologists involved in exercises say that the 5th estimation cycle is fully digital.
“This is done with the help of MSTRIPS, GIS-based patrol modules, which have the application ‘ecology’ innate.
All field data related to the Transek Line will be published in this application.
There is no substitute with the transect method.” They further said that the Dhume case was Accidents and “can happen with anyone who patrols on foot”.
“For one event, the methodology for all Tiger countries cannot be changed.
Tiger cannot be counted with the help of drones in the Indian forest landscape,” they said.
The Prevalent Transect method * Measuring a little abundant in an area based on a visual meeting while running along the fixed line of 2 km.
1-2 people walk in each line.
Note is stored from all herbivores and other wildlife seen while walking.
Every animal vision number, time, species, group size, pellet, dirt, scats etc.
must be recorded.
Vegetation and tree species must also be recordedCamera trapsuses the arrest-sign framework.
Involves photographing individuals uniquely which can be identified by their collaborative patterns.
Sampling is done simultaneously in the minimum block of 200 SQKM.
The camera is deployed in the 2SQKM lattice.
In each grid, trap two-sided camera operates for 25 days.
The distance between two adjacent trap stations is between 0.8 to 2 km.