A Michael Broad Blog
Here are some stories of tiger hunting from the past; from a time when it was considered “normal” to hunt tigers for the fun of it. They are extracts from books in the public domain and courtesy of Google – thanks Google. I find these stories both fascinating and very disturbing. When looking back …
I am in despair again over tiger conservation. I have absolutely no optimism about tiger conservation. This state of mind has been brought about by an article that was pointed out to me by a person who I believe works in India. I don’t know his position in conservation. He emailed me having read …
China – Tiger Farms In truth, the Bengal tiger population is not clearly known. Today, December 2018, I have reviewed the Bengal tiger population and I note that Wikipedia states an estimate of 2500 and National Geographic presents a figure of 4000 (which is clearly wrong). It’s a difficult position to be in because …
There is no doubt that the Bengal tiger is mismanaged despite the best of intentions. Or worse, is the mismanagement deliberate? The Bengal tiger occupies India and India has at least two high profile conservation organisations: Wildlife Institute of India (WII) at Dehra Dun set up in 1982 Project Tiger was incorporated in …
