Second Phase of Tiger Census Completed in Chitwan-Parsa Block

Chitwan. The second phase of the tiger census, conducted by treating the Chitwan and Parsa National Parks as a single block, has been successfully completed. Following the conclusion of the second segment of the count, which began on Poush 3, the work of retrieving the installed automatic cameras is now underway. According to the park administration, it will take two to three days to collect these cameras.

In the second phase, cameras were placed in 336 grids covering areas including Sauraha, Khagendramalli, Lothar, Pratapapur, Thori, and Someshwar. Around 150 trained enumerators were deployed in this area. The cameras will now be relocated, and the work of photographing tigers will commence in the remaining areas of Parsa National Park under the third phase.