18-05-2025
Indian children taught how to coexist with tigers as numbers grow
In rural northern India, where arable fields merge into untamed forest and buffaloes graze within earshot of wild elephants, a quiet educational revival is under way.
Schoolchildren are being taught a lesson their grandparents found they did not need, and that their parents largely forgot — how to coexist with tigers.
The scheme is a response to good news. In 2010, when the number of tigers in India fell to only 1,700, the country pledged to double the population. That target has been met: there are now more than 3,600.
However, according to Dr Mayukh Chatterjee, a conservation biologist at Chester Zoo, this success story comes with sharper claws than many realise.
'Tiger numbers didn't double in a vacuum,' he said. Instead, the
