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Unfortunately as shooter pointed out we cant reverse the clock but both the nations are responsible for damage done to wildlife post 1947. An estimate at profit made by poachers imagine the money government would have made had they legalized hunting - this money would have been spent locally.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050529/spectrum/main1.htm
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Organised crime

In August 1993, when a consignment of six full-grown tiger skins, besides tiger bones, and leopard, chital, fox and otter skins were seized from Majnu ka Tila in Delhi, the extent of this heinous crime was established. Since then several seizures have been made. Smugglers get shahtoosh wool from Tibet to India and take tiger skins and body parts back to Tibet and China, says nappy Kumar.

While India is the hub for the supply of dead tigers, China is the biggest retail market from where the tiger skins and parts are further supplied to Vietnam, Taiwan, West Asia, South Korea and Japan.

It is believed that in the past 10 years 1,500 tigers have been killed and Rs 900 crore earned by poachers ( US $200 Million). A tiger skin is worth Rs 10 to 12 lakh and the value of each poached tiger is Rs 60 lakh."
1 Crore = 1,000,0000

Rich and politically connected guys these days are encroaching on sanctuaries to open so called resorts or illegal mining. Read below how one such brave activist who was opposing Gir Forest mining mafias was assassinated that too in front of High Court in broad daylight

"Ahmedabad, July 20: An RTI activist who launched a campaign against illegal mining in Gir forest was shot dead by unidentified men this evening as he was coming out of his office opposite Gujarat High Court.

Police said Amit Jethwa, in his thirties, was shot from point-blank range.

Jethwa, a resident of Khambha village in Saurashtra’s Amreli district, had recently filed a public interest petition against illegal mining in the Gir forest. "
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100721/jsp/nation/story_12708321.jsp
Its a battle which India, Brazil and other nations loosing a specie /animal/or trees a day..

Nevertheless all said and done its sad to know that no Tigers are left in Pakistan atleast in the wild but recently I have read that many powerful folks actually own Tigers and Lions in their private Zoos! Including Nawaz Sharief ( Ex PM) nephew or son who had to return a Siberian Tiger?

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