Animals on the Edge Blog
What’s the future for the Bengal tiger?
I’m home but I can’t get from my mind the thought that, whatever conservation efforts are applied by the world’s NGO’s, without a significant change in attitude from the Indian government, the tiger in India is doomed to extinction. Great efforts in conservation have been made on behalf of the tiger in the past two decades and yet the population of tigers in India is still declining at an alarming rate. The Forest Department in Madhya Pradesh is now finding traps and snares within the tourist areas of the Park, a sure sign that tigers in the buffer zone have been poached out. Punishments for poaching are ineffective and there appears a significant lack of will at government level to do anything other than posture. I arrived in India optimistic that the world could save the tiger. I left far less optimistic than I’d arrived.
Posted on 03/20 at 10:59 AM
Posted in: Chris's blog •
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I refuse to believe that the Indian government refuses to do all they can to save one of their national treasures. Could it be possible? Do they not care that this majestic animal could vanish forever very soon?
By donald on 2008 03 28