M F AHMED
Daltonganj, Nov. 12: Four trap cameras have been set at strategic locations where the kill of the sighted male tiger was located in the Bareysanr range of the Palamu tiger reserve (PTR),
The field director and chief conservator of PTR, Kumar Ashutosh said, “The kill (a full-grown feral buffalo) weighing more than 150 kg was discovered by a search team of the PTR hotly in pursuit of the direct sighted tiger on Thursday. We think the tiger may like to visit its kill and if it comes, our trap cameras will make no mistake in capturing its images.”
Deputy Director (North division) of PTR, Kumar Ashish informed that the trap camera is installed at such a place where there are no hanging branches of trees. The camera is motion-sensitive and if the branches keep moving then there is every possibility of the trap camera to exhaust all its battery power in the automatic recording of the images.
Sources said the PTR is divided into nearly 500 grids and two trap cameras facing each other but with a gap of ten to fifteen feet are installed knee heights above the surface at any solid and immovable object in every two square kilometers.
The field director further said, “We shift the trap camera every 25 days and install it at places like the water body or at some such places where there is the possibility of wildlife coming.”
