The tide of tiger poaching in India is rising! An investigation of the intertwined facts with a focus on conservation.

ABSTRACT: Poaching and illegal trafficking are major threats to biodiversity, especially when endangered felids are concerned. Tigers are iconic animals, and there is huge demand for their body parts both in the national and international illegal markets. India forms the largest tiger conservation unit in the world and poaching is at its peak even though there are stringent laws and strict enforcement. In the present study, we analytically estimated the tiger seizure cases in India from 2001-2021 using newspaper archives as the main source of data. The data was geo-referenced to understand the details of seizure, demand, and locality. We statistically correlated the seizure rate with the density of tigers, tiger reserves, and various other socio-economic factors. Our result shows that skin, claws, b

SUBMITTER: Nittu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9005341 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature