- Original census figures inflated
- Entire population of 15 tigers deemed extinct due to poaching
- More than 50 per cent of the tiger reserve staff recruited as casual labour for tree plantation
- Most skins suspected to be reaching city-based buyers, including Delhi's notorious wildlife smuggler Sansar Chand
- Negligence of Project Tiger staff evident and overwhelming
- Collusion needs more probe
- Without urgent remedial action, leopard extinction next
- In the absence of fringe population and links to tiger habitats, no possibility of tigers relocating to Sariska.
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