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20 Jan 2015 | 13:15 GMT

1411 no more: India has more than half the world’s tigers

Posted by Subhra Priyadarshini | Categories: Environment, Wildlife

1411 no more: India has more than half the world's tigers

Some years back, there was a lot of hue and cry over the number ’1411′ — it was a grim reminder of the number of tigers left in India’s many wildlife sanctuaries. Everyone seemed to have got concerned over the dwindling numbers — from the National Tiger Conservation Authority to a telecom company which came up with an innovative advertisement and a leading electronic media house that vowed to ‘save our tigers’.  Read more

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25 May 2012 | 08:11 BST

Big cat blues

Posted by Subhra Priyadarshini | Categories: Environment, Wildlife

Telling pictures

Large banners featuring tigers and leopards have come up in and around India’s national capital region of New Delhi. The banners, featuring Asia’s big cats —  tigers, leopards, snow leopards and clouded leopards  – threatened by illegal poaching, are part of an eye-catching campaign by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The black and white pictures have a direct-hitting subtext “Wanted Alive” emphasising the need to keep these felines healthy and happy in their natural habitat. Reproduced here, with permission from WWF, are the pictures that tell their own story.  Read more

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