The Long-Term Tiger Monitoring Project

We continue to support the Long-Term Tiger Monitoring Project started by Chuck McDougal in the 1970’s.  Last September, our tiger tracking team received a 3-year commission from Nepal’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation to record the tiger’s use of buffer zone habitat as dispersal corridor and their results have confirmed a healthy tiger population in the core of Chitwan National Park, Madi Valley, and adjacent buffer zones. Our lead tiger tracker, Baburam Mahato, has become crucial ally in the Forest Department’s efforts to protect all endangered wildlife. He is one of the first to be called to the scene to investigate incidents of wildlife deaths or human-tiger conflict.  Baburam’s Nepal Tiger Trust team has also been involved in the latest Nepal tiger census. The camera trapping efforts has recorded photos of a wild elephant ripping a camera off a tree, a  tiger walking away with a camera strap hanging from its mouth, and a young cub walking up to the camera in cat-like curiosity and putting its eyeball on the the lens.