NEW DELHI: India’s 2018 tiger census has set a
new Guiness World Record with not only a strong and rapid increase in the number of tigers in the country, but also for managing to capture over 76,000 pictures of tigers and over 51,000 pictures of the
elusive wild cats, leopards during the enumeration process.
To obtain the
photographs of the tigers, forest officials and conservation experts paired camera traps at 26,760 different locations across 139 study sites, which generated approximately 35 million photos. Apart from capturing rare photographs of a wide range of wild life in
the animal kingdom, the cameras also captures 76,523 images of tigers and 51,337 photos of leopard.
India’s 2018 tiger census showed that India is now home to nearly 3000 tigers, numbers which are significantly higher than 2014 when the last tiger census was conducted.
The data was released by Prime Minister Modi, who announced, to the delight of nature lovers, that Indian tiger population jumped from 2,226 in 2014 to 2,967 in 2018, making India one of the biggest and most secure habitats for the wild cats in the World.