The photographs from these cameras will be sent to the Wild life Institute of India, who are very good at analyzing them. Top officials to this department are selected by a special entrance exam. Though all the other Government organisations, from the IAS to the foreign services have one common exams, the forest cadre have separate exams.
To appear for this exam, one has to be a Science graduate. Those who pass, enter the forest college in Dehradun or Coimbatore. There are five colleges for Rangers run by the Central Government.
Those who get a higher grade certificate become Rangers. The ones with lower grade certificates become foresters. Those who fail can continue studying, but through their own finances.
There is a Field Director for every sanctuary and he has two Deputy Directors to assist him. There are 29 tiger sanctuaries in India. Two have been recently notified in Tamil Nadu - Mudumalai in the Nilagiris and Anaimalai in Pollachi district.
Inside the Kalakad-Mundanthurai sanctuary, there are 226 families. Though the Government has given them land outside the sanctuary, they are refusing to move and may have to be forcefully ejected.
Image: White Bengal tiger cubs Samuel (L), Shankar (C) and Sameer (R) rest at their enclosure at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad.
Photograph : Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images
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