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SAVE TIGER .... PHOTO PAINT ON PHOTO PAPER... A4 ...2014... WHY SAVE TIGER?... In any case, if someone asks you why they should start saving tigers, ask them a simple question, “Would you feel no embarrassment at all if India is left without a single wild tiger?” He or she will have no answer. The question that arises now is, how? To answer this, we must first know what the tiger needs and what we are depriving it of. Tigers need a pristine forest with little or no human interference and abundant prey. What are we not giving it? A pristine forest, with little or no human interference and abundant prey. Humans have taken up the best forest areas for themselves, leaving tiger habitat encroached and forests fragmented. All this has resulted in human-animal conflicts, poaching and habitat destruction. We must provide tigers with good forest areas free of humans. We can do this by proper relocation of forest dwellers, most of whom don’t like living in the forest, and who would happily move outside forests given incentives such as employment, electricity, water, schools and hospitals. This brings us to the biggest problem that the tiger faces – poaching. If you ask anyone how to stop the poaching of wildlife, they will always have a straightforward answer: better protection. And that is precisely what we need to provide for our wilderness. Instead of meandering about in utopian ‘co-existence’ ideas, we need to focus our finances, effort and enthusiasm into providing better equipment to new, young and enthusiastic guards who can actually protect the forests. The average age of forest guards in some forests in India today is just under 50 and young recruits are not being hired faster than the old lot is retiring. In addition to recruiting more and younger guards, we also need to pay guards with better salaries and life insurance, as their job is very risky. We must also boost their morale by regularly applauding the efforts of diligent officers. If these steps are not
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