India has been seen as one of the very few bright spots in tiger conservation. However, in 2008 the nation downgraded its likely number of tigers from 3,508 to 1,411. Poaching continues to be a major problem for tigers not just in India but in every remaining habitat. The poaching is fueled by the black market in tiger parts, which are used in traditional Chinese medicines. While China has currently banned any selling of tiger parts, the ban has not stopped the underground trade. In a 2008 poll of Chinese residents in seven major cities, 43 percent admitted that they had consumed products that they thought contained tiger parts.
2009 sees alarming rise in tiger deaths in India
2009 sees alarming rise in tiger deaths in IndiaNew Delhi (IANS): Six tigers have been killed by poachers since the beginning of 2009 and more have been killed by enraged villagers, estimates an NGO. The Indian government had itself raised an alarm about the dwindling number of tigers in the wild last year, saying there were only around 1,400 left.
Between 2005 and 2008, at least 20 tigers have been poisoned to death and 10 died in accidents, the NGO said.
"Poachers take away every part of the tiger's body and do not leave any evidence at the site: so poaching cases do not get noticed," says S.N. Buragohain, director of the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, some 200 km from the state's main city Guwahati.
The government has set up 37 tiger reserves, spread across 19 states in India. But the current level of protection is proving inadequate for the animals. Last year, the central government's National Tiger Conservation Authority estimated that only about 1,400 tigers roam the wilds in India nowdays, down from an estimated 15,000 just two decades ago.
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