India has recorded 48 tiger deaths since January, nearly as many as during all of last year, in a setback to its efforts to save the endangered animal, an official says. "The largest numbers have been killed in the Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand state and in the Tadoba tiger reserve in Maharashtra," said SP Yadav, deputy inspector general of the National Tiger Conservation Authority. Yadav said it was not clear how many of these tigers were killed by poachers but it could be more than 50 per cent. The rising demand in tiger parts in China and Southeast Asia has led to a rise in poaching in India's tiger reserves, Yadav said. Conflict with villagers who live in the vicinity of the reserves also leads to the killing of tigers. Source: The Coming Crisis, Source: https://www.flickr.com/
