KATHMANDU: Installation of camera traps has begun in Rara National Park to investigate wildlife. The camera trap technology is being used to record large and medium mammals found in the park, research on their movement and distribution.
Through random sampling, 40 grids of one by one square kilometer would be selected and a camera would be placed in each grid for the research in winter and summer seasons. Each camera trap will be kept for 21 days.
Tilak Thapa Magar, a researcher Bimal Raj Shrestha, a researcher, Bachan Prasain, a postgraduate student and Birkha Bahadur Rokaya, former chairman of the Intermediate Consumer Committee, are active in the research. Hari Prasad Sharma, associate professor at the Central Department of Zoology, is supervising the research.
