Fall in eastern swamp deer count at Kaziranga National Park

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Floods have reduced the number of vulnerableeasternswamp deer inKaziranga andTiger Reserve(KNPTR), which has been counted for the first time in the whole KNPTR on January 10 and 11.

Prior to this, the process was only done in Kaziranga National Park.

The official said this is mainly due to two high floods in the intervening period, that is, 2019 and 2020. Territory wise, 786 undereastern Assamdivision, 62 under Biswanath wildlife division and 20 under Nagaon wildlife division have been recorded by experienced and trained wildlife

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experts from outside the forest department. In the field exercise for census of the vulnerable eastern swamp deer, 29 enumerators and 112 forest personnel were directly involved.
On the other hand in the fourth wetland bird estimation 2021-2022, carried out from December 21 to 27, encompassing the whole tiger reserve, a total of 66,776 birds of 126 species were enumerated using point count method.