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S1E96: India has remarkably saved the tiger but deeper issues remain: Asian Insider
India's experience offers lessons for other countries in wildlife conservation, and one of the keys is having local communities on board.
Synopsis: Each fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents an Asian perspective of the biggest global talking points with expert guests.
India very recently marked the fifth anniversary of Project Tiger. India has saved the tiger. Bringing a predator like the tiger, back from the brink of extinction, in a country of now over a billion people, is a remarkable feat.
India now has something like 70-75 per cent of all…
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