By the end of the century there will be no wild tigers left - this Is the dire warning of wildlife experts in India, given the continuing slaughter that provides the traditional medicine markets of the east with powdered tiger bone.
Project Tiger was launched in 1973 and, until a few years ago, was seen as a successful conservation organisation, halting and reversing the decline in tiger populations. But what should have been a celebration of 20 years of success last year was spoilt by the grim new estimates of the effects of poaching.
This documentary investigates what went wrong and what can be done to save the tiger. Producer Mike Birkhead
Executive producer Keith Scholey
Can the tiger still be saved ?
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