India's tigers in losing battle against poachersnIndia's tigers in losing battle against poachers

On a routine patrol of a vast jungle in the central highlands in April, forest guards came across a gruesome scene.
Flies swarmed beside thick undergrowth where a tiger lay dead: together with maggots, they had reduced the animal's once-magnificent, gold-and-black striped body to a putrid, hollowed carcass.