Save the tiger!?

There is a big hue and cry from the Government agencies that India is left only with 1411 tigers and its time to protect and save them?  Film stars are appearing on the Television screen and voicing their concern about the diminishing population of the Tigers, the national animal of our country!  After 10 years, I am sure, there will be advertisements on the media and its channels that the population is only 100 and its time to protect them and  the coming generations will see them only in their books of study! 

These advertisements and appeals by the film stars are not going to bring about a change in protecting the wild life from going into extinct. The need of the hour is the Centre should take the state governments into confidence and appoint teams consisting of village panchayat leaders who live in the surrounding of the jungle or forest areas where the tigers belong to, educate them about protecting the wild life and the dense forests for our future generations to exist and persuade them to prevail upon the local hunters to give up wild life hunting for a few extra income.  This extra income can be compensated by the government directly to the uneducated hunters through the village panchayats. All the political parties should jointly will for the success of this programme like in the case of NREGA which is seen as the most successful programme ever introduced by any political party in our country so far to have generated employment amongst the masses!  The problem of vanishing wild life an be addressed only if the government looks into the roots of the problem and not by forcing galaxy of stars to appear on the Television and asking them to take oath for protection of wild life which seems to be a joke as no one who watches the Television programmes are considered "Educated" and no Educated person would go into the jungles and gun down wild life for any strange reason?  The money spent on such unproductive advertisements could well be channelled to uplift the lives of those who are directly involved and engaged in elimination of wild life!?