{"id":13816,"date":"2020-02-06T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/feb\/06\/no-tigers-here-why-goa-india-is-in-denial-about-its-big-cat-population-aoe"},"modified":"2020-02-06T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:00:30","slug":"no-tigers-here-why-goa-is-in-denial-about-its-big-cat-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13816","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No tigers here&#8217;: why Goa is in denial about its big cat population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials claim there are no tigers in Goa. But the poisoning of a mother and three cubs has forced the issue into the open<\/p>\n<p>As a child living in the Vagheri hills at the foot of the Western Ghats, Rajendra Kerkar would often hear the majestic roar of tigers echo across the mountains. It was never greeted with fear by the villagers in this remote corner of northern Goa; the name Vagheri translates as \u201chome of the tigers\u201d and coexistence with India\u2019s national animal was part of their way of life.<\/p>\n<p>Yet according to state authorities, these tigers do not exist; or if they do, they are just passing through. Unlike other states in India, where the presence of tigers has been celebrated, embraced and in many cases exploited for tourism, Goa\u2019s tigers have instead been subjected to a strange charade, whereby their existence has repeatedly been denied or covered up by those in government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/feb\/06\/no-tigers-here-why-goa-india-is-in-denial-about-its-big-cat-population-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials claim there are no tigers in Goa. But the poisoning of a mother and three cubs has forced the issue into the openAs a child living in the Vagheri hills at the foot of the Western Ghats, Rajendra Kerkar would often hear the majestic roar of ti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,456,1089,464,65,62,61,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-conservation","category-endangered-habitats","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13817,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13816\/revisions\/13817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}