Every tiger, nation’s conscience

India is home to the largest number of wild tigers in the world. If the tiger has to survive it has to be in India. Hardnews joins the campaign to protect the most magnificent and majestic creature in the animal kingdom. See coming issues for more on tigers and on the spot reports from tiger reserves.

Death of a tiger
After poachers, it is sustained official insensitivity, and the human-animal conflict that threatens the endangered species of the great Indian tiger Akash Bisht Ramnagar/Dhikala

We want to truly save our tigers
It was under his guidance that Aircel has become a household name with their thought-provoking advertisments on the pessimistic status of the majestic wild tigers in India. The impact of this successful endeavour of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has spread across the nation, from schools to power corridors. Sandip Das, Director Incharge of Indian Operations at Aircel Limited, spoke to Hardnews in an e-mail interview

Every Tiger, Nation Conscience.
The principle cog in the food and ecological cycle, with every tiger gone, the entire country's survival is at stake. Beware India. Protect the big cat in the wild. Hardnews joins the campaign to protect the most majestic and magnificent creature in the animal kingdom.
Akash Bisht Delhi

This rain dance is toxic
This can be apocalyptic for perhaps the only success story of tiger preservation. The precious Jim Corbett National Park is stalked by real estate and tourist lobbies, violating every code of the wild.
 Akash Bisht Delhi

Lone soldiers of the Wild
Poaching prospers in an environment where committed forest guards are underpaid and professionally untrained
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow

Dhudhwa in dire straits
Unlike Corbett, the Dudhwa National Park in UP is decaying, even while tiger experts call for urgent and immediate measures to revive the wildlife sanctuary and save the last of the remaining tigers Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow

Another day in the woods
The forest guards behind Jim Corbett's success story are ignored and doomed to live in extremely sub-human conditions. They complain that they are considered no more than chowkidars and successive governments have turned a blind eye to their apathetic state Akash Bisht Ramnagar

Parliament for Tigers
Following the tiger trail, Hardnews talks to four MPs on what it takes to save the big cat.
Hardnews Bureau

Forest in a rat trap
Trapped from all sides by expanding towns, heavy traffic highways and railway tracks, mining and poaching, can the precious little strip of Rajaji National Park save its tigers?
Akash Bisht Chilla/Rishikesh