Global Tiger Patrol
Founded in 1989, Global Tiger Patrol (GTP) is a conservation agency prioritising protection of the tiger in the field. If the wild tiger became extinct, most experts agree that it is extremely doubtful whether it could ever be reintroduced. The tiger, the pre-eminent symbol of the wild, would be gone forever, and with it, Asia's wilderness.
GTP concentrates its work in India, as the subcontinent is home to about 50% of the world's remaining wild tigers.
GTP's expertise is tigers but its conservation work helps save Asia's animals - from mighty elephants and rhinos to ants and beetles. As the tiger is at the top of the food chain, nature can only thrive under its umbrella. If the insects and animals that pollinate trees and fertilise the ground die out, the survival of the forests and jungles will be threatened.
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Photographs: Raghu Chundawat, Valmik Thapar & Fateh Singh Rathore
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| "The tiger is large- hearted gentleman with boundless courage"
Jim Corbett |
"The eyes of the tiger are the brightest of any animal on earth. They blaze back the ambient light with awe-inspiring intensity. It would be a tragedy, and a terrible dereliction of duty, if we allowed that magical fire to burn out"
Billy Arjan Singh |
"Nothing can prepare you for the sheer blood rush, the tingling spine when you see a wild tiger. Its presence is spellbinding, humbling man against nature."
Peter Lawton
Founder of GTP |
"If power was all that tigers had, I would not care for them. Tigers are so beautiful - that's the point".
Fateh Singh Rathore |
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