大象传媒

Following revelations that tiger populations in Sariska and other reserves around the country had suffered devastation, India's Prime Minister ordered an investigation to be carried out at the highest level. The Central Bureau of Investigation determined some of the key problems faced by anyone wishing to protect India's tigers. They found that city based traders would offer poachers 50,000 rupees for a tiger skin, a life-changing sum of money to people in rural areas. Local villagers involved in the skinning were simply responding to outsiders who boasted major financial muscle and an eager market. The CBI conclusion was very clear: there were two or three organised networks of poachers killing tigers and trading their skins