Tigers dying in record numbers

Time has an article by Sam Frizell about tiger loss in India:

Some 274 tigers have died in India over the past four years, most of them because of poaching. Only 82 of those tigers died because of natural causes, while more than seventy percent of tiger deaths were due to poaching or for undetermined reasons, Indian science-and-environment magazine Down to Earth reports.
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar released the figures in response to a question in Parliament on 26 November 2014.
India had approximately 1,706 tigers in the 2010 census. The overall population of tigers may not suffer when India’s official tiger-population census for 2014 gets released next month.
“Here, we are not taking tiger births into account,” said S.P. Yadav, deputy inspector general with the National Tiger Conservation Authority. “An adult tigress can give birth to younger ones every ninety days. Of four-five litters that a tigress gives birth to, if even one or two survive, these numbers can be compensated.”

Rico says that, among a slew of other reasons not to visit India, this is a good one...