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How exactly does India count its tigers?

In India, the most high-profile application of camera traps is probably in the context of national tiger estimation exercises undertaken under the aegis of the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change. These surveys are carried out with the aim of monitoring a keystone species endangered due to a number of factors – habitat loss to urbanisation and industrialization, prey depletion and a concerningly high rate of poaching, for example.