John Varty & Tiger Canyon

[Shardul]

Even if we assume for a moment that his heart is at the right place and he genuinely cares about conservation, I don't really understand how his model is going to work. He says these animals will later be reintroduced into Asia, but has he marked which areas in Asia? Are his animals fully capable of surviving on their own in the wild? Can he just transport animals from one continent to another and expect them to adapt? What if Varty's tigers come in conflict with humans in their asian habitat?

Tara, the famous hybrid tigress from Dudhwa was raised by humans and then released into wild when she became an adult, but turned man eater and had to be killed. A tigress from Pench translocated to Panna kept moving out of the park repeatedly even though there was enough prey and no competition for her in the park area. These were animals used to the environment and still had trouble adjusting.

Wouldn't it have been better to simply use all this money, that he put into tiger canyons, to protect tigers in parts of asia where they exist but are struggling to survive? Reply