The counting of these animals would also help the department to push its agenda of protecting bird species, animals and more forest areas. The Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, is the nodal agency for wildlife counting.
According to Forest officials, beat level survey will be done by department officials at identified beats of Shivalik and Aravali between May 5 and May 12. Camera mapping exercise by WII Dehradun team will be done in selected areas between May 1 and June 30.
The State Chief Conservator of Forests said that the distribution, numbers and behaviour of birds and animals are changing over the period of time because of various reasons. The Population of the black partridge (kala teetar), Haryana State bird, sparrow, butterfly, hog deer or pada deer, whit nape tilt, leopards among others has been decreasing over the past few years.