Wildlife biologists in Nepal use a few different techniques to track, count and preserve tiger populations. Here’s a look inside one of those techniques: camera trapping.
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TRANSCRIPT
Camera trapping is the most used technique for the tiger monitoring.
In this way, we can differentiate the individuals of tiger.
(biologists speaking foreign language) (biologist gasping) Tiger!
- Ah, Tiger!
- [Biologist] I do have experience, like setting the camera traps a bit higher above the ground when the area is full of rhinos because sometime rhino destruct the camera.
I'm wildlife biologist.
I started working on tiger and fishing cats.
In 2010, Nepal's tiger population is below hundred.
Nepal has a goal to double the population of tiger by 2022.
In 2022, the national tiger census of Nepal, so there are 355 tigers in the country.
Nepal is the first country to almost triple the tiger population, so Nepal is very successful.
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