Co-existence
<p>Read <a href="https://www.sanctuarynaturefoundation.org/article/1%2C000-days-to-save-the-tiger" target="_blank">1,000 Days to Save the Tiger</a>, authored by Bittu Sahgal and Valmik Thapar in 1996, to understand how astonishing it is that our tigers have managed to survive. Since Project Tiger was launched at the hands of the late Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, a steady slipslide in the wild to protect the tiger began to take root. Almost three decades later, both authors publicly acknowledge that the credit for the tiger’s survival saga, should go to the Indian people for their innate reverence for nature and the tiger... together with legislation such as the <em>Forest (Conservation) Act</em>, 1980, and the <em>Wildlife (Protection) Act</em>, 1972. Needless to add, both authors publicly acknowledge how pleased they were to have their doubts about the survival prospects of <em>Panthera tigris</em>, proved wrong. That said, tigers face another existential crisis today, from the triple-barrel threats from our climate crisis, the ill-advised conversion of forest lands to industry and from poaching, which continues to take its lethal toll. Photo: Soumabrata Moulick/Sanctuary Photolibrary</p>
