Editorial

India is suffering its third tiger crisis. Once again there is fear that the largest surviving tiger population in one country 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 Indira Gandhi to launch Project Tiger in 1973 and to ban hunting and the export of skins.

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