Bhubaneswar: In a first, college and school students will participate in the upcoming All India Tiger Estimation 2025-26 at Odisha’s Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary scheduled to begin in the second week of November.

A total of 46 students from Dunguri College, Kamgaon College and Lakhanpur High School are currently undergoing training for the national-level census. “The students are being trained in sampling techniques, data gathering, recognising herbivores and carnivores, and detecting indicators like pugmarks, footprints, scrape marks, scent markings, and calls,” said Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of the Hirakud Wildlife Division Anshu Pragyan Das. ADVERTISEMENT

The All India Tiger Census was last carried out in 2022.

Elaborating on the decision to engage students in the task, she sa

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