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Tharchen, L.; MacDonald, D.W.
Important habitat for a small population of tigers in central Bhutan
2013 Cat News (59): 4-6
Bhutan forms the northwest portion of a Tiger Conservation Landscape (TCL 37), a global priority 1 TCL that includes prime tiger Panthera tigris habitat spanning the low subtropical belt to the steep and high temperate forests up to and above the tree line. The Trongsa Forest range, a timber production zone under Zhemgang Forest Division, has not previously been a priority area for tigers, but a brief reconnaisance in 2010 revealed three tigers there. Therefore, in 2011/12 we undertook a systematic 60 day camera trapping survey of the 44.19 km2 area. This revealed at least four tigers, including two of those seen in 2010, not only drawing attention to the potential importance of the area for tiger conservation, but also raising issues of conflict with local farmers and directing our attention to the Pelela region (east Wangdue district and west of Trongsa) as a potentially important tiger habitat between Yotongla pass (east of Trongsa) and Pelela pass (east of Wangdue district).
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