President of the Wildlife Conservation Trust Anish Andheria provides a first-hand account of the remarkable work being done by the organisation to monitor forests outside the protected area network of central India.
Showcased here is an infinitesimally small selection from an ever-growing repository of nearly 30,00,000 camera trap images that has been built over five years of systematic and intensive monitoring of forests outside the protected area network of central India. The exercise has been carried out by the field team of Wildlife Conservation Trust in collaboration with the State Forest Departments of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. While doing so, the team has spent countless hours scaling some of the most arduous terrains and braving temperatures ranging from 2 to 45 degree Celsius. Yet, according to them, nothing is more pleasurable than participating in work that helps the States to get a first-hand, granular understanding of the distribution of large carnivores, their prey, several other lesser known, timid species, and also of anthropogenic disturbances.
https://www.wildlifeconservationtrust.org/camera-trapping-outside-protected-areas/
Showcased here is an infinitesimally small selection from an ever-growing repository of nearly 30,00,000 camera trap images that has been built over five years of systematic and intensive monitoring of forests outside the protected area network of central India. The exercise has been carried out by the field team of Wildlife Conservation Trust in collaboration with the State Forest Departments of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. While doing so, the team has spent countless hours scaling some of the most arduous terrains and braving temperatures ranging from 2 to 45 degree Celsius. Yet, according to them, nothing is more pleasurable than participating in work that helps the States to get a first-hand, granular understanding of the distribution of large carnivores, their prey, several other lesser known, timid species, and also of anthropogenic disturbances.
https://www.wildlifeconservationtrust.org/camera-trapping-outside-protected-areas/