PILIBHIT: For the first time, India, Nepal and Bangladesh will be conducting the 2018 tiger census in close coordination in their respective territories at the same time. The census will be held under the supervision of NTCA and the Wildlife Institute of India Talking to TOI, NTCA additional inspector general Vaibhav Mathur said, "Both Nepal and Bangladesh have shown interest in holding tiger census in sync with us. It will be a three-day exercise that will be organized in all six forest zones of India. "All necessary arrangements will be made for the training session here," he said.VK Singh, conservator of forest, Bareilly circle said the first phase of tiger census will be completed by Decemberend. The final phase, which involves computation of tiger density and installation of camera traps, will go on from February to October next year," he said.

Source: Times of India November 03, 2017 20:48 UTC