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| Dey, T.K.; Kabir, M.J.; Ahsan, M.M.; Islam, M.M.; Chowdhury, M.M.R.; Hassan, S.; Roy, M.; Qureshi, Q.; Naha, D.; Kumar, U.; Jhala, Y.V. | |
| First phase tiger status report of Bangladesh Sundarban | |
| 2015 Full Book | |
This report summarizes the outputs of first ever scientific tiger monitoring in Bangladesh Sundarban. The earlier assessment was done in 2004 with the financial assistance of United Nations Development Program and technical assistance from West Bengal Forest Department of India. Methodology used was tiger pugmark and result come with an estimate of 440 tigers of which 121 male, 298 female and 21 cubs. Wildlife sign survey is very good for distribution and can often provide relative abundance but estimates of absolute abundance are unreliable unless calibrated with more reliable methods. The current report is based on robust spatially explicit capture mark-recapture using camera traps and covariates of prey, tiger sign and human impacts obtained from khal survey across Sundarban. The exercise was done between 2014 to early 2015 with an unprecedented effort of about 7500 man days by forest staff and other supporting staffs. The results provide an absolute density of tigers per 100 sq. km, population limits, abundance of tigers and their prey species and habitat condition. This information is crucial for forest/wildlife managers to incorporate conservation objective into Integrated Resources Management Plan for the Sundarban (2010-2020). |
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