Source: TIMES OF INDIA
NEW DELHI: More tigers have been killed already this year than in the
whole of 2015, a census showed Friday, raising doubts about India's
anti-poaching efforts.
The Wildlife Protection Society of India said 28 tigers had been poached by April 26, three more than all of last year.
Tiger meat and bones are used in traditional Chinese medicine and fetch high prices.
"The stats are worrying indeed," said Tito Joseph, programme manager at the group.
"Poaching
can only be stopped when we have coordinated, intelligence-led
enforcement operations, because citizens of many countries are involved
in illegal wildlife trade. It's a transnational organised crime."
Poachers use guns, poison and even steel traps and electrocution to kill their prey.
India is home to more than half of the world's tiger population with 2,226 in its reserves according to the last count in 2014.
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