Karnataka has lost 15 tigers, 13 leopards, and 19 people to human-wildlife conflict in six months. The state’s answer is to sterilise wild animals. The science — and the logic of what is actually driving conflict — says this is the wrong answer entirely.
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Between October 2025 and April 2026, Karnataka lost 15 tigers, 13 leopards, 8 elephants, and 19 people to the widening fault line between humans and wildlife. Now the state is proposing to sterilise wild animals — and the science says that’s not the answer.
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India’s method of estimating tiger population could be adopted by five Southeast Asian nations, if a proposal of the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) goes through, according to a report by The Hindustan Times.
Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar are the five countries identified by GTF for replicating India’s methodology, which will introduced during a workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in November. Malaysia and Indonesia are incidentally referred to as Tiger economies, a nickname they derived after witnessing an investment boom between late 1980s and mid-1990s.
The GTF, formed in 1994, is the world’s only intergovernmental organisation dedicated to tiger conservation, the Hindustan Times reports. The GTF membership includes seven tiger range countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal and Vietnam.
