Thousands Fan Out Across India To Count Remaining Tigers - ENN

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NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of forest workers are fanning out across India's jungles and national parks to count the country's endangered tigers, officials said on Friday. The exercise involves 88,000 forest workers who have been given designated areas in various wildlife sanctuaries.

India has half the world's surviving tigers, but conservationists say the country is losing the battle to save the big cats. There were about 40,000 tigers in India a century ago, but decades of poaching have cut their number to 3,700.

Concerns have again risen after a sharp decline in the number of the tiger population was reported -- with one national park near New Delhi saying last year it had no tigers left.

Earlier tiger counts had been done solely by spotting their pugmarks but conservationists said that method was faulty, mainly due to varying soil and weather conditions.

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[Lowell]

1. Yum Yum

meals on wheels. I'll be the tigers love that.

[FedUpWithIt All]

2. I simply cannot imagine a world without tigers...

:cry:

[YankeyMCC]

3. Hopefully they are paired up at least

I'd of course stick with someone who's a slower runner than I. :)

Seriously though, cheers to efforts to assert the survival of these incredible creatures.

[Javaman]

4. In other news...

The tiger population just had an unexpected boom. The new cubs are surprisingly well fed.