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Wildlife Conservation
Study says government counts of tigers in India are inaccurate
June 23rd, 2003
A method used by India's government to count tigers for the past 30-plus years has produced largely inaccurate data, resulting in poor conservation practices, according to a study in the journal Animal Conservation. The study was a collaboration among ecologists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the U.S. Geological Survey, WWF-USA, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Minnesota, and the Wildlife Institute of India. The researchers say that counting tiger "pugmarks" or track prints, a technique developed in 1966 but never published in a scientific journal, is still used by India's government as the exclusive method to...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2003-06-23)
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