Papikonda National Park getting ready for tiger census
The Hindu
Over 200 camera traps to be set up to record presence of big cats
The Rajamahendravaram Wildlife Division is preparing the ground for the All India Tiger Estimation-2022. It will install more than 200 camera traps in Papikonda National Park (PNP) spread over 1,013 square kilometres in East and West Godavari districts. Nearly 300 Forest Department personnel from the two districts will be deployed in the exercise that aims at identifying the potential sites across the national park and the adjacent forest. The preliminary exercise involves finalising the places to install the camera traps to record the presence of tigers. Three tigers were recorded in PNP, declared as a national park in 2008, as claimed by the Forest Department in 2016. The park was covered in the Tiger Census-2018 but the number of big cats present there was not mentioned.
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