O Tiger, Where Art Thou?
"Just 1411 Tigers left in India" India has the world's largest number of tigers in wild. Poaching (Hunting of Wild-Animals) is a very serious offence, but still it continues to be the case here in India. Our neighbor China is the largest illegal consumer of 'tiger-products' for medicinal purposes. Now you are smart enough to make a connection between poaching and illegal use. Almost four-decades ago in 1973, a wildlife conservation movement was initiated know as "Project Tiger" ( http://projecttiger.nic.in/index.asp ) which aimed at tiger conservation in specially constituted tiger reserves throughout India. The sole responsibility of "Project Tiger" was to increase the number of tigers by building reserves around their natural habitat and thus providing them safety from concrete-madness. Now the big-question is 'did it work?' The answer is Yes and No. No, because there were reports that these reserve officials themselves got inv...