India to Spend $13.15M to Protect Tigers
A royal Bengal tiger grimaces as he lays in his enclosure at the zoo in New Delhi, India, in this Aug. 1, 2007 file photo. India\'s government has proposed setting up a special force of forest rangers to protect the country's dwindling tiger population from poachers. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, that the government would give the National Tiger Conservation Authority a grant of 500 million rupees (US$13.15 million, Euro 8.67 million) to "raise, arm and deploy" a Tiger Protection Force. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
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