NEWSLINK: India’s big cat surveys ‘over reporting numbers’

Surveys of India’s tiger inhabitants which have cheered conservationists by reporting sharp rises in numbers could have exaggerated, an investigation claims.


The survey group could have double-counted scores of tigers by misinterpreting digital camera entice pictures, in line with an evaluation of the counting methodology.


Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, in July hailed an “historic achievement” after tiger numbers have been reported to have risen from 2,226 in a 2015 survey, to 2,967 this 12 months.


Officers mentioned they have been assured within the numbers as a result of greater than four-fifths of these counted had been photographed by 26,000 cameras arrange in recognized tiger habitats.

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