For the first time, Nepal and India will undertake a joint tiger census next month in their national parks, forests and protected areas adjoining the two countries using a globally-recognised method, officials said today.
Conservation authorities and experts would install cameras in various locations in tiger habitats as well as in buffer zones to capture and track the movements of the big cat, a senior official said.
The counting of tigers will begin from the second week of November, Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Man Bahadur Khadka said.
According to Khadka, this is the first time that both the countries are counting tiger heads using the same method that is recognised globally.
During a meeting recently, Nepalese and Indian conservation officials had decided to use the camera tapping procedure for the joint.