- Counting of wild animals will starts
- Presence of more than 90 tigers is expected
- Counting to be done till 28th January
Chronicle Reporter, Panna
In Panna Tiger Reserve of Madhya Pradesh, counting of wild animals is being done from 21st January to 28th January under Phase-4 monitoring. Keeping this in view, changes have been made in tourism timings.
Area Director Anjana Suchita Tirkey informed that counting (monitoring) of tiger, leopard and other wild animals is being done in Panna Tiger Reserve from Tuesday, 21st January under Phase-4 monitoring. Therefore, the time for morning safari for tourists has now been fixed from 8 am for the period from 21st January to 28th January. Trap cameras have been installed at identified places in all the forest areas of Tiger Reserve for counting of wild animals. The photographs collected in these cameras are matched and new wild animals are identified from this.
In the census, information is also obtained about the movement and territory of tiger, leopard and other wild animals. Forest personnel have been deployed in the Tiger Reserve to count tiger, leopard and co-predator wild animals.
Trap cameras have sensors, as soon as a wild animal comes in front of these cameras, the camera clicks the photo.
Tiger is hunting domestic animals
Anuppur. Due to the presence of tiger around Amarkantak in Anuppur district, the forest department has asked the villagers not to go to the forest and also not to send domestic animals to the forest. Forest department sources say that the tiger is roaming in the forest of Jaleshwar village near the major pilgrimage place Amarkantak. Two days ago it hunted a cow. In view of this, the forest department has appealed to the villagers to keep their animals tied and not to go towards the forest. On the other hand, wild elephants are also roaming in Pushprajgarh area, which have entered here from the border of Chhattisgarh.