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'''Tiger poaching in India''' has seriously impacted the probability of survival of [[tiger]]s in India.<ref>Tiger poaching and trafficking in India: Estimating rates of occurrence and detection over four decades, Koustubh Sharma,Belinda Wright,Tito Joseph,Nitin Desai, Biological Conservation, Elsevier, Volume 179, November 2014, Pages 33–39</ref> About 3,000 wild tigers now survive compared with 100,000 at the turn of the 20th century. This abrupt decimation in population count was largely due to the slaughter of tigers by colonial and Indian elite, during the British Raj period, and indeed following India's independence.<ref>http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/10/a-concise-history-of-tiger-hunting-in-india</ref> Most of those remaining, about 1,700, are India's [[Bengal tiger]]s.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sharon-guynup/poaching-for-chinese-mark_b_6276984.html Poaching for Chinese Markets Pushes Tigers to the Brink, 12/05/2014]</ref>
[[Project Tiger]] in India had been hailed as a great success until it was discovered that the initial count of tigers had been seriously flawed.<ref>[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0807_030807_indiatiger.html Faulty Counts May Have Hurt India Tigers, Experts Say, Pallava Bagla, National Geographic News, August 7, 2003]</ref>

Most of the tiger parts end up in China.<ref>[http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/indias-hidden-tiger-poachers/ INDIA'S HIDDEN TIGER POACHERS, Roads and Kingdoms, Jun 20, 2014]</ref> where a single skin can sell for Rs. 6.5 million.<ref>[http://www.tehelka.com/sansars-successors/ Sansar’s Successors, RAMAN KIRPAL, October 16, 2010]</ref>

For poachers there has been about a four percent conviction rate.<ref>[http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/12/illegal-tiger-trade-why-tigers-are-walking-gold/ Illegal Tiger Trade: Why Tigers Are Walking Gold, Sharon Guynup in Cat Watch on February 12, 2014]</ref>

Sansar Chand, the notorious Tiger poacher acknowledged to selling 470 tiger skins and 2,130 leopard skins to just four clients from Nepal and Tibet.<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Sansar-Chand-notorious-tiger-poacher-dead/articleshow/32261903.cms Sansar Chand, notorious tiger poacher, dead TNN | Mar 19, 2014]</ref>

==Sansar Chand==

Sansar Chand, from the Thanagazi area of Alwar district, had been termed "the kingpin running the country’s biggest wildlife trade syndicate".<ref>[http://www.tehelka.com/wriggling-out-of-the-skin/ Wriggling Out Of The Skin, Jay Mazoomdaar, Tehelka, 2013-07-27 ]</ref> He stayed in the trade without getting arrested for 40 years. He ran his business from Delhi's Sadar Bazar. He was called "[[Veerappan]] of the North".<ref>[http://www.tehelka.com/sansar-chand-is-indias-deadliest-poacher-here-is-how-he-has-escaped-legal-traps-for-40-years/ Sansar Chand Is India’s Deadliest Poacher. Here Is How He Has Escaped Legal Traps For 40 Years, RAMAN KIRPAL, Tehelka, August 7, 2010],</ref>

He is blamed for wiping out the entire tiger population of [[Sariska Tiger Reserve]] in 2005 <ref>[http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/sansar-chand-who-wiped-out-sariska-tigers-dies-of-cancer/#sthash.03oSSPFg.dpuf Sansar Chand, who wiped out Sariska tigers, dies of cancer, Indian Express, March 18, 2014]</ref>

In 1991, a group arrested in Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan confessed that they had poached 15 to 18 tigers in just two years for him.
In January 2005, a raid at Chand's godown in Patel Nagar led to finding of two tiger skins, 28 leopard skins, 14 tiger canines, three kg of tiger claws, 10 tiger jaws and 60 kg of leopard and tiger paws. In 1988, police had seized 25,800 snake skins from him.<ref>[http://www.outlookindia.com/news/printitem.aspx?307669 Poacher Sansar Chand arrested in Delhi, Outlook, JUN 30, 2005]</ref> Sansar Chand's wife Rani and son Akash have also been arrested for wild life trafficking.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Haider|first1=Tanseem|title=Notorious poacher Sansar Chand's son arrested in Delhi for wildlife trade|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/notorious-poacher-sansar-chands-son-arrested-in-delhi-for-wildlife-trade/1/713274.html|accessdate=19 October 2017|publisher=India Today|date=12 July 2016}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Tiger#Commercial hunting and traditional medicine]]
* [[Gir Forest National Park]]
* [[Poaching in India]]

==References==
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[[Category:Wildlife conservation in India]]
[[Category:Tiger reserves of India]]
[[Category:Environmental issues in India]]
[[Category:Poaching]]
[[Category:Hunting by game]]
[[Category:Smuggling in India]]
[[Category:Hunting in India]]

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