Significant tiger presence has been confirmed in Mizoram’s Dampa reserve forest through DNA fingerprinting techniques.
The presence of the big cats were confirmed during a joint field survey was conducted with the forest reserve’s field directorate, World Wildlife Fund and Aaranyak, a society for biodiversity conservation, in March this year as art of the country-wide phase four of tiger monitoring programme initiated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/tiger-presence-confirmed-mizoram%E2%80%99s-dampa-reserve-forest
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/sentinel-guwahati
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dampa-sa
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tiger
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wwf
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiversity-conservation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-tiger-conservation-authority
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tiger-reserves
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/endangered-species
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mizoram