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New Delhi
A tiger census carried out by India in 2018 has set a Guinness World Record as the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey.
Environment Minister Prakash Javdekar said it was “a great moment” in a Twitter post on Saturday.
Javdekar said India had doubled its number of tigers four years ahead of a 2022 target set at a global summit in St Petersburg in 2010.
Results of the All India Tiger Estimation 2018, released in July 2019, revealed that India’s tiger population had increased to 2,967 in 2018, up from 2,226 in 2014.
India is home to about 75 per cent of the world’s tiger population in the wild, which the World Wildlife Fund estimated at around 3,900 in 2019.
The Guinness World Record citation says the 2018-19 survey carried out by India was the most comprehensive to date in terms of both resources used and data collected.
Camera traps were placed in 26,838 locations across 141 different sites and surveyed an area of 121,337 square kilometres.
Camera traps are outdoor photographic devices fitted with motion sensors that start recording when an animal passes by.
The camera traps captured more than 34.8 million photographs of wildlife, including 76,651 of tigers, from which 2,461 individual tigers, excluding cubs, were identified through a stripe pattern recognition software.
New Delhi
A tiger census carried out by India in 2018 has set a Guinness World Record as the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey.
Environment Minister Prakash Javdekar said it was “a great moment” in a Twitter post on Saturday.
Javdekar said India had doubled its number of tigers four years ahead of a 2022 target set at a global summit in St Petersburg in 2010.
Results of the All India Tiger Estimation 2018, released in July 2019, revealed that India’s tiger population had increased to 2,967 in 2018, up from 2,226 in 2014.
India is home to about 75 per cent of the world’s tiger population in the wild, which the World Wildlife Fund estimated at around 3,900 in 2019.
The Guinness World Record citation says the 2018-19 survey carried out by India was the most comprehensive to date in terms of both resources used and data collected.
Camera traps were placed in 26,838 locations across 141 different sites and surveyed an area of 121,337 square kilometres.
Camera traps are outdoor photographic devices fitted with motion sensors that start recording when an animal passes by.
The camera traps captured more than 34.8 million photographs of wildlife, including 76,651 of tigers, from which 2,461 individual tigers, excluding cubs, were identified through a stripe pattern recognition software.
