The majestic tiger prowling the jungle is the animal most people associate with India, a bucket list sight for many.
But by 1972, when India’s then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made the tiger the national animal in place of the lion, the big cat faced extinction.
At the turn of the 20th century, there had been 40,000 in India but by the 1970s there were as few as 1,700.