Research

Why study tigers in the Sundarbans? Why not put all our resources and efforts into protection? Surely we know enough about tigers by now to know how to help save them! Why are you trying to catch and collar tigers? Isn’t that a dangerous undertaking that endangers a tigers life? These are important questions that… Continue reading Research

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Has the Tiger a Future in India?

by Peter Jackson India is suffering its third tiger crisis. Once again there is fear that the largest surviving national tiger population could face decimation, even extinction. Estimates in the late 1960s and early 70s that the tiger population had fallen to about 2,000, or less, was the first crisis, and it prompted Prime Minister… Continue reading Has the Tiger a Future in India?

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Funding

The funding for the initial research program was provided by Save the Tiger Fund and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Funding for the Tiger Response Team for 2006-7 was provided by the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund. The USFWS have been a tremendous help to the project and recently awarded a grant to continue… Continue reading Funding

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Problem Tiger Response Team

According to official records, there are approximately 15-50 people killed by tigers every year. The actual number is realistically double that, since people who die later from their injuries, or people who were working in the forest without a permit go unrecorded. Tigers are then sometimes killed in retaliation by the local people. This unnecessary… Continue reading Problem Tiger Response Team

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