I am certain they will come up with cooked up figures - they have for the past 35 years ever since the WWF started Project Tiger.

The only positive factor is that this time the Indian and Bangladeshi governments are working together to map the Sunderbans on both sides of the international border. A third country, Burma, is not participating and the final figures probably will be overoptimistically high because of repeat counts.

Sad - the tiger is doomed to extinction in India!