Country’s north eastern state, Assam has always been a favorite destination of wildlife and a new census reveals that the natural surroundings are still in the animals’ favored list. From Royal Bengal Tigers to elephants and one horned Rhinos, population of all wild animals is showing an upward trend.
As per State Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain a recent tiger census carried out in the state with help from WWF-India found the number has increased to 143. As per the National Tiger census published last year, tiger population of the state was about 135.
Assam has at least four prominent national parks and Wildlife sanctuaries where tigers can be spotted. The recent census found that among them Kaziranga still ranks as the number one destination for tigers. The animals are also present in Manas tiger reserve and Nameri and Orang wild life sanctuaries.
For the first time the state used World Wildlife Fund recommended camera trapping network device to track the tigers in the jungles.
The number of wild elephants had also increased in the state with 5620 of them counted in 2011 as against 5246 in 2002.
The highly endangered one horn rhino population, the minister said, had gone up from 1672 in 1999 to 2006 in 2006 and 2201 in 2009 when the last census was done, Hussain said.
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