There are at most 60 wild tigers left in the country, about 20 of them Siberians.

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The park, also home to tigers, wild elephants and numerous other animals, is a Unesco World Heritage Site and is popular with tourists for its elephant-back safaris.

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Specifically, large prey such as Samba deer and wild pig that the tigers need to survive and that the people are killing not just for their own survival, because that would be acceptable, but actually for the commercial market.

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Corbett currently has the highest density of tigers in the wild on earth.

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There are few places on earth where you can see tigers in the wild and India is probably the top destination of them all.

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In India, alarmed by evidence that even fewer tigers survive in the wild than had been thought, the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, appointed a task-force in March to consider what to do.

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For Bengal tigers to thrive in the wild, they need thick forests, plenty of water and plenty to eat.

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This is the best time of the year, and it's going to be very interesting to see how this whole thing plays out especially - and the only problem with it, in the East at least, is that because the Detroit Tigers fell off and because we have a wild card, it seems that both the Red Sox and the Yankees are going to get in.

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On top of that, five more wild-card teams (the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers and Colorado Rockies) have advanced to the Series and lost, maintaining the 29 percent rate of success (10 out of 34).

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