Overview
- Camera-trap images from recent ATREE-supported surveys in D’Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary confirmed a Royal Bengal Tiger’s presence after nearly two decades.
- Frontline staff documented tracks and other signs over the past year, which drove repeated monitoring until a camera captured the cat.
- Divisional Forest Officer Kempi Ete praised rangers, Eco-Development Committees, and local groups for protection efforts that made the find possible.
- The same survey recorded a Critically Endangered Chinese pangolin and an Endangered hispid hare, highlighting the sanctuary’s rich wildlife.
- The 190-square-kilometre sanctuary near Pasighat is Arunachal Pradesh’s only protected area dominated by riparian grassland, where a 2014 WWF baseline found no tiger signs due to poaching.