Dalai Lama for the cause of Tigers....

As a mark of respect to their leader, Dalai Lama, and in keeping with his stand on illegal wildlife trade some of the Tibetans have chosen to give up their lucrative business of trading in tiger skins and body parts. Will his intervention help these awesome creatures?

Tiger skins go up in smoke

Without a doubt, we are solely responsible for the diminishing numbers and extinction of some of their species. What was once considered the pride of India, is now seen struggling to survive and fighting to keep its rightful place on this planet.

Many, rightly so, attribute indiscriminate logging, urbanization and habitat encroachment among the many reasons for their recent plight. As in many other conservation issues, lack of political will to enforce anti-poaching and allied wildlife laws is a cause for the sad state of these animals. We need substantial investment in training, recruitment of diligent enforcement officials and sympathetic patrol guards who do not give in to greed abet the cause.