Royal Bengal Tiger in headlines again Introduction Royal Bengal Tiger ( Panthera tigiris tigiris ) is in news again. And this time for a wrong reason. Media all over the nation took a sympathetic side with this poster species for registering the highest ever annual death numbers in the just concluded year ever since the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) began building a database on India’s tiger mortality in 2012. As reported in the media ,for the first time in the last ten years, 126 tiger deaths have been recorded in a single calendar year-2021 (up to 29 December 2021) - slightly higher than the tally of 121 for the year 2016. Virtually one tiger in the Indian wilderness was dying every third day. Most press and media expressed deep concern for the increase in tiger deaths in the context of escalating incidence of poaching and human-tiger conflict. In the sideline of man-tiger conflict, I wish to share a copy of the Tiger Warning notice given by the President of the
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