Published: 14th Aug, 2019
- The Camera Trap estimation of tiger numbers in source populations, in tiger reserves was poorly done which was a violation of capture-recapture modeling.
- The estimated of prey species densities from line transects were poorly done which is against the current practices.
- The complicated, ‘double-sampling’ based regression model is somewhat flawed and obsolete approach.
- Their statistical methodology of relying on calibrations and regressions based on track and dung surveys to generate wider estimate tiger numbers in wider landscapes was also deeply flawed.
- Based on Enumerators Subjective Ability to Identify Individual Tigers from Pugmarks.
- Variation in Pugmarks with substratum, gait, and observers recording skills
- Not possible to obtain Pugmarks from all Tiger Occupied Landscapes.
- Camera trap method becomes useless in areas having salty waters. It damages the camera.
- Not always that someone will get the poop of all the tigers in an area.
- In Radio Collar Method the method fails when the concerned tiger enters the salty water.
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