The tiger census that started on December 18, 2025 has been completed on February 19.
Chitwan National Park Information Officer Avinash Thapa Magar said that 85 cameras were installed in Chitwan and Parsa National Park where 60 were stolen and 25 were found damaged.
He said that 1,780 cameras were used in Chitwan and Parsa National Parks. According to Thapa Magar, the two national parks were divided into one complex and one complex into three blocks for the tiger census.
This complex was divided into 958 grids for the tiger census. Of the cameras used in those grids, 85 cameras were problematic, Thapa Magar said.
According to him, the work was done by placing cameras in one block for 17 nights.
The two square kilometer area was counted by making a grid.
Earlier, in the tiger census conducted in 2022, data was made public that there were 355 adult tigers in Nepal.
In that census, 128 tigers were found in Chitwan, 125 in Bardiya National Park, 25 in Banke National Park, 41 in Parsa National Park and 36 in Shuklaphanta National Park.