Who Speaks For The Bengal Tiger?

I have always believed that the reason why we have so many animals in our mythology is that the ancient Hindu wise men thought that the animals would be preserved like that. From the mouse to the mighty elephant are all associated with our gods and goddesses. Those animals are not only important to us in a religious way but also for our ecosystem and as our national treasure. The Indian royalty and the British in their macho lifestyles, all but wiped out the big cats. Even today, the poachers kill these magnificent animals for skin our bones and other body parts to be smuggled to China. You see, the Chinese treasure the body parts of the tiger for their traditional medicine. They wiped out their own tiger population so they are now paying money to Indian criminals to do their dirty job. Now the Indian Forest Office people are no more honest than our office babus. How can we expect them to take care of our national treasure? Everyone is selling the country out, why not these guys?
As far as the aam aadmi is concerned, we have procreated so much that we are lucky if we can take care of our people let alone our animals. It is a sad commentary when our people derive such sadistic pleasure in killing these animals. Salman Khan and Nawab Pataudi were both accused of killing endangered animals. What happened to them? Salman Khan has gone from being a very rich film star to a richer film star. At leaset he spent couple of nights in jail. The Nawab, did not even do that.
I am glad that the UPA minister in charge for the environment, Jairam Ramesh is doing all he can. He seems to be the only guy in this malfunctioning government who is doing his job. Of course he comes through as a man possessed. But you HAVE to be a man possessed in India these days to talk about issues that absolutely no one does, save a few nationalists like Chandan Mitra who wrote this rather gut wrenching article

To save the tiger, save jungle
Chandan Mitra
Without a holistic approach nothing can protect India's wildlife from human greed and bestiality. If we don’t act now, the tiger, leopard, elephant, deer and even marine and avian species will face extinction
The article can be read at: http://dailypioneer.com/310887/To-save-the-tiger-save-jungle.html