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Nature 441, 927-930 (22 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441927a; Published online 21 June 2006

Conservation biology: The tiger's retreat

Erika Check1

  1. Erika Check is Nature's biomedical correspondent.
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Tigers are teetering on the verge of extinction and human contact in their habitat could be their greatest threat. Erika Check investigates whether local people can live alongside India's big cats.

It is the dry season in southern India, but a thunderstorm has cooled the air and damped down the dust in the forest of Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka. As he drives slowly down a dirt road in the park, wildlife biologist Ullas Karanth keeps one eye on the horizon and the other on the wet ground, scanning for tiger tracks.

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