India contains nearly 65 of the global population of tigers. During the last few decades, the populations of this magnificent animal have dwindled at a perilously fast pace (Das and Sanyal, 1995). The tiger's survival ultimately hinges on the people who live in the periphery of the tiger areas (Seidensticker and Hai, 1983). This paper presents the actual census work carried out for tiger (Panthera tigris) and leopard (Panthera pardus) in Similipal Tiger Reserve of Orissa, India - one of the nine tiger reserves initially established in 1973.
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