Why is the Indian tiger close to extinction?
If the tiger goes, the forests go, the trees go, the water goes because without trees, we cannot conserve water. The tiger is at the very root of conserving our wildlife. Like all our religions, the tiger should be made into a god and worshipped. Im saying this with full consciousness because our entire civilisation hinges around our saving our forests and our wildlife. We are in the midst of a terrible crisis. But nothing is being done out of sheer ignorance. Q. Despite grand plans, why has so little happened on the ground? Indians are being allowed to procreate at the expense of all other animals. But because animals are not part of our vote-bank politics, they have no voice in anything that happens in our country. Q. Wasnt the Dudhwa National Park created largely at your initiative? Way back in 1955 I realised the central government was planning to impose a ceiling on land-holdings. I submitted a proposal to the State Board of Wildlife of UP to make about 3,000 acres into a North Te
