Key Highlights
- It also includes detailed habitat assessment through sign surveys, line transects, camera trapping exercises and genetic sampling.
- Tamil Nadu, which is home to five tiger reserves — Kalakad Mundanthurai, Anamalai, Mudumalai, Sathyamangalam, and Srivilliputhur-Megamalai — will participate in this nationwide effort.
- The State’s tiger population has increased from 264 in 2018 to 306 in 2022, as per previous estimates.
- An official release from the Chief Wildlife Warden Rakesh Kumar Dogra said the exercise would cover all tiger reserves, other tiger habitats, and private estates with significant carnivore presence.
- Frontline staff, volunteers, and technology such as camera traps and the M-STrIPES monitoring system would be deployed.
