(IN): Orissa rejects national tiger census figures

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*Orissa rejects national tiger census figures*

 

NDTV Correspondent

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 (Bhubaneshwar)

Chief Minister of Orissa Naveen Patnaik has rejected the national tiger

census figures for the state.

 

According to the released figures, there are less than 60 tigers in Orissa

and less than 30 in the Simplipal National Park, which is one of the first

project tiger reserves in the country.

 

The Orissa Forest Department, headed by Patnaik, has maintained that

Simplipal alone has more than 100 tigers.

 

This figure was arrived at after the pugmark count. The Chief Minister has

termed the pugmark method as inaccurate.

 

He is now planning to lodge objections in the Ministry of Environment as

well as the Wildlife Institute of India for the census figures.

 

 

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