Editorial

There were an estimated 1,827 tigers in India in 1972. In over 30 years the government poured more than US$80 million into Project Tiger, its flagship conservation programme. Now, in 2008, there are only 1,411 tigers. How could such a disaster occur? Project Tiger came about because the Prime Minister of the time, Indira Gandhi, was deeply interested in wildlife and forest conservation, which dominated her speech to an IUCN General Assembly in Delhi in 1969.

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