Tigers find both heaven and hell in India

Nearly half of the world's tigers live in India, but this is also the country that has the largest trade in parts of large cats.

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Conservation experts say that despite the positive results, India still faces numerous challenges in its efforts to deal with tiger hunting. The poor people in this country are willing to kill and sell tigers for only about $ 100 each. Meanwhile tiger guards only enjoy cheap salaries and are not equipped with modern equipment, AFP said.

' Poaching is the biggest risk for tigers. The second risk is the destruction of their habitat , "said Satya Prakash Yadav , an official with the Indian Ministry of the Environment and attended a conference in Russia, speaking to AFP .

The world has only about 3,200 wild tigers and more than 1,400 of them live in India. But India is also home to 54% of tigers and tigers. A recent report of TRAFFIC's network of wildlife and animal trafficking monitoring shows that more than 1,000 tigers have been killed in Asia in the past 10 years.

'People living around tiger sanctuaries are always in poverty. If someone gave them a large sum of money to buy tigers, they would catch or kill them. Poachers only receive $ 100, but the price of all parts of the tiger body can be sold for 100 or 200 times that amount, 'said Sejal Worah, branch manager of Thien Thien Fund course (WWF) in India, speaking.

Worah said most tiger hunting continues to be complicated in India because of the demand for tiger parts in Thailand, where tigers are much lower than India.

Vivek Menon, South East Asia director of the International Animal Protection Fund (IFAW), said India had issued many laws to protect tigers, but the implementation of the law was rather loose.

'If an individual kills a tiger, that person will be jailed for 7 years, but not fined. India enacted many strict laws, but the problem was that the law was enforced in a country too large. For years, no one has been detained. Previously, judges never accused poachers , "Menon said.

The Indian government established a tiger protection program in 2007 and spent millions of dollars on emergency measures to reduce tiger poaching.

One of the government's solutions is to hire retired soldiers to work in tiger sanctuaries. But Worah says security guards must work under difficult conditions. Another solution is to get people out of tiger sanctuaries. India intends to establish tiger sanctuaries without infrastructure, roads and people. But this plan is controversial.

Many animal protection organizations say that the number of tigers in India has dropped from 5,000 to more than 1,400 in the last 5 years, although the total area of ​​tiger reserves increased by 32 thousand km ² .