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May 13, 2001

Anti-Poachers, India, 1997

Photograph by Michael K. Nichols

"Setting forests aside for tigers is one thing, ensuring that they remain protected is something else again. Protecting wildlife from poachers requires strict policing, but the battered rifles the guards carry are no match for the automatic weapons wielded by intruders."

—Text adapted from "Making Room for Wild Tigers," December 1997, National Geographic magazine

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Sita: Life of a Wild Tigress," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)