A Kerala state minister's comments on controlling the population of tigers have outraged conservationists.
An Indian state minister's comments on culling tigers has sparked a debate on conservation.that his government may consider solutions including sterilisation or culling to check tiger numbers in the state.The minister later told the BBC he only repeated a suggestion from locals regarding eliminating tigers.
India is home to more than 70% of the world's tigers - according to the most recent government estimate, the numbers stand at 2,976. But their, forcing so-called "surplus" tigers to move outside protected reserves and come in conflict with humans. After his death, angry locals protested against forest officials and demanded that the tiger be killed.But the minister told the BBC that the suggestion on culling came from locals who had attended a meeting with all the political parties to discuss a way out.Dr Ullas Karanth, a conservationist and tiger expert, told the BBC that over the past 50 years, the population of tigers has only increased by a thousand, far less than capacity.
If tigers enter human habitats and prey on livestock, authorities should immediately pay compensation, he says. And if they become man-eaters, they should be "immediately killed", Dr Karanth adds, calling it "damage control in specific instances".
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