Figure 1: Meghauli Community forest entrance gate flooded
Camera trapping is a powerful tool for wildlife monitoring and conservation, but it comes with several challenges, including environmental factors. Here, we encountered specific flooding issues at our camera trapping site in Chitwan. Bel...
Figure 1: Problem tiger attacking technicians trying to dart and capture it
Early morning along the Narayani River in Beltandi, near the town of Bharatpur, a tiger attacked a man. The Nepal Tiger Trust technicians assisted with pugmark identification, while Chitwan National Park authorities used a dr...
Figure 1: Meghauli Pothi June 2017. Individual tiger is identified using stripe patterns
Meghauli Pothi was born in August 2014 and has been closely monitored since then. She has exhibited remarkable reproductive success and over her 10-year lifespan, she has given birth to three litters, total...
Since 2018, 215 undergraduate students from Kathmandu Forestry College (KAFCOL) have participated in a field course at the Nepal Tiger Trust (NTT) Meghauli field site. Each year, an average of 35 students visits the field site for 7-10 days. During their time there, they learn about the structure an...
The Nepal Tiger Conservancy and Keene State College (KSC) collaborated and developed an academic program where 12 undergraduate students, two professors and one volunteer, spent 23 days in Nepal. They spent few days in Kathmandu, the capital city, exploring UNESCO World heritage sites and remaining ...
Project Leader: Rupesh Maharjan
Location: Chitwan National Park
Funding & Supporting Partners: The Rufford Foundation, IDEA Wild, Nepal Tiger Trust, Terai Fishing Cat Project, NTNC, DNPWC, FCCA.
The Long-Term Tiger Monitoring (LTTM) project was initiated in 1980 by Dr. Charles McDougal to understand the population dynamics, life histories, and reproduction of tigers living in an area of approximately 100² km in the western end of Chitwan National Park. Funded by the International Trust for ...