"It's an international scandal," she said. "I think that's why the prime minister is sitting up a little bit."
Circling around the vanishing tigers story in India is the question of what happens to the people who live around the tigers, namely the villagers who stand to gain vast sums of money by aiding poachers. In a statement, the Tiger Task Force said that among the failures in conservation was the "increasing hostility of local communities who share the tiger's habitat."



