KB: So is there a tiger crisis?
PK: Obviously there is a tiger crisis. Obviously there is a tiger crisis, at the moment. And this is happening for the last 10 years or so. Maybe more than 10 years.
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Interview with P.K. Sen [PK]
Former Director, Project Tiger

KB: So we all know that there is a tiger crisis but how serious is the crisis?
BW: Actually I don’t think this is another tiger crisis. Actually I think this is the end of the road. I think it is a very depressing indication that as a nation, we in India are not interested in the tiger’s future, and in saving the tiger. I truly believe that.
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Interview with Belinda Wright [BW]
Director WPSI

KB: Corbett National Park must be doing something special that it’s different. … You must be doing something different.
RB: CNP is different. It’s different because of its location, its assets, because of this contiguity of rich forests along most of its boundaries. Most important is the tradition, morale and the attitude of the staff. You take that out and CNP wouldn’t be CNP.
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Interview with Rajeev Bhartihari [RB],
Director, Corbett National Park [CNP]

KB: How severe is the tiger crisis today?
VT: As far as I’m concerned, in 30 years of me working with the tigers, there has never been a more severe crisis, but the crisis comes from absolutely low-grade governance by the state govts and the central govt. A complete lack of understanding by activists and those NGOs who think they are working to save the tiger. All in all, it’s one ball of confusion, and in that confusion the tiger dies.
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Interview with Valmik Thapar [VT]
Tiger Conservationist

KB: Historically and predominantly, why are people, communities, living inside the forest, around the national parks, sanctuaries…dubbed as enemy no.1 of tigers?
AK: If you look at the history of how protected areas came in, in the first place, there was a lot of discussion on this around the beginning of the 20th century, when the Yellowstone National Park model and stuff like that were being discussed around the world,
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Interview with Ashish Kothari [AK]
Conservationist Kalpavriksh

KB: Please tell me about your association with this sanctuary.
SS: Yeah, I’ve been working for – this is the 13th year I am working in this wildlife sanctuary [Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Sanctuary]. I started working in this forest area in 1994. Now it’s almost 12–13 years.
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Interview with Siddappa Shetty [SS]

KB: Do you think there is a tiger crisis?
UK: I think there is a tiger crisis. There has been one for the last 200 years. I think the tiger is in a perennial crisis, but things get better, things get worse, and right now I think we are in a bad patch. I think from 1970 to 1990,
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Interview with Ullas Karanth [UK]
Tiger Scientist