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Tiger is India's national animal but it is becoming extinct species.If killing tigers is not stopped there could be 0 tigers left in India. Save the tiger just 1411 in India ...
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Tiger and man in India. The repeating rifle and large cartridge were not favorable for the tiger in Imperial India…
The British tiger hunter in order to hunt “fairly comfortably,” needed five camels , which could be hired for about ten rupees a month in northern and central India. He took a khidmatgar, or valet, a water carrier, a dhobi, or washerman, a sweeper, or gunbearer, and at least two grooms. Each man was paid twenty to eighty rupees a month and was responsible for feeding himself. If the hunter carried good guns, he could get into the field for about a thousand dollars. The actual shikar, or hunting expenses would run about five dollars a day.
He got up at sunrise, galloped or walked to his next camp by eight
o’clock, sent on his rifles perhaps another six miles to where he would
begin beating, breakfasted at his camp, and rode out to beat and shoot
until just before sunset. Then he came back to camp, took his bath,
“arrayed himself in light flannels, and dined.” He never drank water
while he was out in the field, unless desperate, and he never drank
liquor before sundown.
This was the purest form of tiger killing. Unhappily, it was not the
most common. The real shikarist was bitingly critical of the
aristocratic Indian, and British, hunters who drove tigers between
phalanxes of elephants ) the tormented tigers had been known to kill the
mahmous). When royalty went hunting- and George V of England was
representative- he was aided by five hundred elephants provided by a
local dignitary. The elephants formed a line and advanced, the royal
party firing generally at any movement in the grass. King George and his
men bagged thirty-nine tigers. The most luxurious form of hunting
enabled the hunter to wear white drill and tennis shoes, to carry an
umbrella against the sun and baskets of iced drinks under the seat of
the howdah.
There was no danger. The ladies came along. It was “an Oriental rather than English form of sport.” Everything was shot: deer buffalo, hyena, tiger, leopard. Scores of animals died in a good drive.
ADDENDUM:
(see link at end)…The jungles around Ranthambhore became the private hunting preserve for the royalty of Jaipur state. The jungl
f India were teeming with wildlife. The British, in a bid to prove their control over all that represented India, hunted the tiger to near extinction. Indian royals also participated in senseless hunting, either to seek favour with the British or to try and outdo them in demonstrations of their own wanton prowess. Some of the figures given below show how rampant and pointless this hunting habit was.
Mjaaharaja of Surguja 1100 tigers
Maharaja of Udaipur 1000 tigers
Mahara of Vijaynagaram 525 tigers
Maharaja of Rewa 300 tigers
In 1970 the hunting of tigers was banned by the Government of India, and when the first census of tigers indicated the shocking truth that no more than 1,827 tigers remained in the wild, Project Tiger was launched in 1973. Ranthambhore became one of the first nine parks to be designated as a Tiger Reserve….
…Many of the tigers, including the very popular and bold tigress Noon were found to have been killed by poachers. The tigers were so protected that they no longer saw humans as a threat, and as a result, were very easy to shoot at point blank range. The population plummeted once more, from nearly 50 tigers to fewer than 20, an almost unsustainable number. At the same time, the park faced renewed pressure from the people living around it, who wanted to use its rich vegetation for grazing their cattle, and to chop wood for fuel. Opportunistic politicians seized their chance to win over the villagers by assuring them that they may take the cattle into the park to graze, telling them that they had every right to be there rather than the visitors who came from the cities to see the wild animals.Read More:http://www.tigerwatch.net/general_information.htm
The British tiger hunter in order to hunt “fairly comfortably,” needed five camels , which could be hired for about ten rupees a month in northern and central India. He took a khidmatgar, or valet, a water carrier, a dhobi, or washerman, a sweeper, or gunbearer, and at least two grooms. Each man was paid twenty to eighty rupees a month and was responsible for feeding himself. If the hunter carried good guns, he could get into the field for about a thousand dollars. The actual shikar, or hunting expenses would run about five dollars a day.
—George
V takes note of the number killed – 3-4 tigers and a bear. There were a
total of 39 tigers and four bears killed during this hunt.—click image
for source…
—Hunters
inspect four dead tigers and a deer. George V’s elephant and howdah are
on the left. There were a total of 39 tigers killed during this
hunt.—click image for source…
There was no danger. The ladies came along. It was “an Oriental rather than English form of sport.” Everything was shot: deer buffalo, hyena, tiger, leopard. Scores of animals died in a good drive.
Click image for source…
(see link at end)…The jungles around Ranthambhore became the private hunting preserve for the royalty of Jaipur state. The jungl
f India were teeming with wildlife. The British, in a bid to prove their control over all that represented India, hunted the tiger to near extinction. Indian royals also participated in senseless hunting, either to seek favour with the British or to try and outdo them in demonstrations of their own wanton prowess. Some of the figures given below show how rampant and pointless this hunting habit was.
Mjaaharaja of Surguja 1100 tigers
Maharaja of Udaipur 1000 tigers
Mahara of Vijaynagaram 525 tigers
Maharaja of Rewa 300 tigers
In 1970 the hunting of tigers was banned by the Government of India, and when the first census of tigers indicated the shocking truth that no more than 1,827 tigers remained in the wild, Project Tiger was launched in 1973. Ranthambhore became one of the first nine parks to be designated as a Tiger Reserve….
…Many of the tigers, including the very popular and bold tigress Noon were found to have been killed by poachers. The tigers were so protected that they no longer saw humans as a threat, and as a result, were very easy to shoot at point blank range. The population plummeted once more, from nearly 50 tigers to fewer than 20, an almost unsustainable number. At the same time, the park faced renewed pressure from the people living around it, who wanted to use its rich vegetation for grazing their cattle, and to chop wood for fuel. Opportunistic politicians seized their chance to win over the villagers by assuring them that they may take the cattle into the park to graze, telling them that they had every right to be there rather than the visitors who came from the cities to see the wild animals.Read More:http://www.tigerwatch.net/general_information.htm
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