BHIMDUTTANAGAR: The census of swamp deer in the Shuklaphanta National Park has been underway since Sunday.

The census started on the joint efforts of the park and National Trust for Nature Conservation in an interval of five years is being undertaken with the help of 25 technical human resources.

The team has been divided into multiple groups to conduct the survey of populations of swamp deer.  It will conclude on April 18.

In the previous 2013 census, 2,301 swamp deer, the highest number in the world, were counted here. So far, the enumerators have caught the sightings of over 1,900 swamp deer.