On 3rd August, 2018 Nepalese Youth for Climate Action-NYCA organized Green Discussion on ENPHO Hall Tapagaun. Respected Jhamak B.Karki, PhD presented on the Topic “Status of Tiger Monitoring in Nepal; Comparing results of the Past (2008/09 &2013/14).” Around 85 Participants from different institutional background was present in the Discussion and the program was interactive. He stated that Tiger can be identified by body marks Face marks, Tail marks. He mentioned about Line transact and its practical use in Nepal and also about camera trapping which have been used in recent tiger monitoring. He concluded that camera trapping is more reliable than pellet counting method. Participants raised the Question about Tiger monitoring. Camera trapping is not use in case of Rhino because Each Tiger have different footprint to be identified but Rhino cannot be distinguish. Male and female tiger can distinguish on the basis of Pug mark.
