The camera is counting tigers in the Sundarbans

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The camera is sitting in the Sundarbans to count the cameras. In the world's largest mangrove forest, two cameras are installed at 665 points in four ranges. If a tiger, deer, pig or any other animal passes in front of the camera, the picture and 10 second video will be recorded automatically. All information about the tiger census will be released in June next year.

The program of tiger counting has been inaugurated in Kalabagi area of Sundarbans on Sunday. Inauguration of the program of Environment and Forests, Begum Habibun Nahar, said that tiger conservation is essential to protect the biodiversity of the forest, and census is being conducted to find out the number of tigers and the current situation.

After the inauguration, the installation of cameras will start from Haldibunita area of Satkhira range of Sundarbans. In the first phase, the census will be conducted in the Satkhira and Sarankhola ranges till next April. Then the census will be conducted in Sharankhola and Chandpai ranges for four months from November. A total of 665 grids or locations are being installed in the forest, with the trees in the forest, 50 cm above the ground, each site will have two cameras for 40 days and the camera battery and memory card will be changed every 15 days.

Tiger Conservation Project Director and Department of Sundarban West Forest Department Abu Naser Md. Mohsin Hossain said that since December 15, the work of the canals under the Kalabgi Foreign Foundation is being surveyed on both sides of the canals and the work of tiger movement and pawn impressions will be seen through this canal survey. When the camera trapping and canal survey work is completed, all the data will be sent to the Resource Information Management System Unit of Dhaka Forest Department, where the results of the Bagh Census will be announced in June 2024 after review.

According to the sources of the forest department, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Water Change of Change in the tiger and conservation of tigers for the tiger conservation of the tiger, the Ministry of Forestry and Water Department approved the project of 35 crore 93 lakh 80 thousand taka. Out of this, only 3 crore 21 lakh taka has been caught in the tiger census sector till March 21.

The project director said that the Sundarbans will be censused outside the suburban and suburban areas, which will be the area of the survey, which is less saline, medium salted and more salty areas.

Tiger researcher in the census team and professor of zoology at Jahangirnagar University, said that it is very important to know the number of tigers for management activities. If the survey shows that the number of tigers has increased, then it will be understood that the management is good. If the number of tigers has decreased, then it should be understood that there is a shortage of management. Then according to that, in response to one question, he said, he thinks that the number of tigers in the Sundarbans will be increased.

The 1600 tiger census was done in the Sundarbans in the camera trapping system for the third time in 2015 and 2018. Before 2015, there were 114 tigers in the Sundarbans in the 2018 survey.

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