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| Thapar, V. | |
| The tragedy of the Indian tiger: starting from scratch | |
| 1999 Book Chapter | |
India today is a country of nearly a billion people. Fragmented and deeply scarred, this is the land of the tiger and is home to 50% of the world's wild tiger population. Comparing past and present forest maps of India, one can see that large chunks of forest have now ceased to exist in the west and north. We are ending up with little islands that may or may not survive the pressures of time. Whether it is the green floodplains of Kazirange, the monsoon and rainforests of peninsular India, the mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans, the lower Himalaya in Manas or Corbett, the problems of these areas mount and we enter an era where the tragedy of the tiger overwhelms. It is time to start from scratch. |
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