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Discovery: Tooth and claw: Tigers

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Tooth And Claw 

05/07/2021 GMT

Tooth and claw: Tigers

BBC World Service - Discovery, Tooth and claw: Tigers

What's it like facing a charging tiger and how best can we protect their growing numbers?

What is it like facing a charging tiger and how best can we protect their growing numbers?

“As it charges towards you, you can actually feel the drumbeat of its feet falling to the ground”. Nothing quite says fear more than standing before a charging tiger. Yet so often it’s also the poster-predator for conservation. The tiger truly  is the ‘prince of the jungle’.. The good news (to some) is that after a century of decline, wild tiger populations have increased recently. But with this comes the increase in human fatalities – there are almost daily attacks on the rural poor across India. A world without wild tigers is not a world we want, but how do we balance the needs of people and the needs of tigers? Adam finds out more about tigers and the people that live around them by speaking with Indian tiger expert Rajeev Matthews and conservation biologist Samantha Helle, who is based in the US and works with communities and tigers in Nepal.  

Producer: Rami Tzabar and Beth Eastwood
Presenter: Professor Adam Hart

(Photo: A crouching tiger, Credit: Yudik Pradnyana/Getty Images)

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