Dave Varty said on Friday they were relieved that their tiger conservation project could continue for now.

戴夫·瓦提于周五称，他们对自己的老虎保护项目能够继续进行感到安慰。

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The Tiger Conservation Project would help the wildlife rangers and forest guards who patrol the 25 sanctuaries where the last of the big cats reside.

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The government has insisted the tiger population is stable at around 3, 500 down from over 4, 400 in 1989, but better than 1, 800 in 1973, when Indira Gandhi, then prime minister, founded a conservation authority called Project Tiger to save them.

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Also, last month leftist parties insisted on changes to new wildlife legislation that weakened a proposed new anti-poaching unit and conservation watchdog, the National Tiger Conservation Authority, that had been intended to be more powerful than Project Tiger.

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