Synopsis

Conservation activists talk about and illustrate the desperate fight to save the tiger, actually two of the remaining subspecies. For the Bengal tiger, the (great-)grandson of the India forestry director who lobbied to make PM Indira Ghandi sign the world's first tiger protection legislation and set up reserves, while converting the mentality of the colonial age prestige tiger hunts and cattle protective culling into guarding the national icon. A Russian WWF nature fan risks life and limbs to save the Siberian tiger from poachers and villages inside reserves.

Conservation activists talk about and illustrate the desperate fight to save the tiger, actually two of the remaining subspecies. For the Bengal tiger, the (great-)grandson of the India forestry director who lobbied to make PM Indira Ghandi sign the world's first tiger protection legislation and set up reserves, while converting the mentality of the colonial age prestige tiger hunts and cattle protective culling into guarding the national icon. A Russian WWF nature fan risks life and limbs to save the Siberian tiger from poachers and villages inside reserves.