Aaranyak,
a society for biodiversity conservation, has installed the cameras and
is footing the bills of its volunteers engaged in the work. Wildlife
biologist Firoz Ahmed of Aaranyak said that about 100 cameras had been
installed. “The image capturing will continue till March end and
after about 40 days of trapping, the cameras will be brought back for
analysis and estimation,” said Mr. Ahmed, who is also a member of
National Tiger Conservation Authority. He said tigers, leopards and clouded leopards were found in Namdapha. Some claim to have also seen snow leopard in the reserve.
Camera
trapping method has been used for the first time in the ongoing tiger
census in the Namdapha National Park in Changlang district of Arunachal
Pradesh.
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