Big cat bites back.
Since Project Tiger was launched in 1973 to save India s tigers, thousands of people have died - killed by the flourishing tiger population. In the Sundarbans tiger sanctuary, covering the mangrove swamps on the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers between India and Bangladesh, some 600 people have been mauled to death. Understandably local opposition to Project Tiger is mounting. A strange order of priorities is shown in the fine for killing a tiger being three times higher than the compensation paid to the dependants of a tiger s victim. The law says a tiger is worth more than a person.