Professor at Wildlife Institute of India since 1993, with an M.Phil. from Aligarh Muslim University. An expert in GIS and remote sensing, he has researched the Terai, Central Indian Highlands, and Trans-Himalaya, focusing on community ecology, species biology, and landscape ecology
According to 2018 estimates, India has onl 2,967 tigers. Have you ever wondered how does one count tigers? What systems and mechanisms are used? How reliable are the numbers that are finally estimated and released? Most importantly, why do we count tigers? We invite children and teachers to a special Young Environmentalist MasterClass on the subject of counting of tigers with one of India’s foremost wildlife experts, Qamar Qureshi of the Wildlife Institute of India.