Shrinking population

The scat analysis and camera traps are part of the AITE’s comprehensive methodology to calculate India’s tiger populati

What are camera traps?

Cameras installed in reserves to get pictures of animals to estimate their population in wild. As stripes are unique to each tiger, their number can be estimated with help of pictures

What is scat analysis?

Presence of animals can be estimated via DNA in feces

(scat). This is second method to find animal, if the camera traps miss them.

Earlier studies in the United

States had suggested that wolf and bear numbers could be estimated via DNA in feces

Other reserves that lost tigers: Sariska in 2004 and Panna in 2009