Title
India’s tiger counts: the long march to reliable science
Author(s)
Karanth, K. U.
Published
2011
Publisher
Economic & Political Weekly
Abstract
Following the recommendations of the Tiger Task Force in 2005, the first national tiger estimation survey by the Wildlife Institute of India-National Tiger Conservation Authority in 2006-07 switched to “sampling” of tiger populations, finally abandoning the flawed pugmark census. However, since methodological details of the WII surveys are not available in the public domain, a technical assessment of the reliability ofthese survey results is not possible.

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