Jungle Book: the resort

What’s left of Kipling’s romantic wilderness of yore? The monkeys are still there. The deer are abundant. But what of the Sheer Khan’s fearsome family of tigers? India’s population of panthera tigris tigris is in steep decline. Many of India’s naturalists say that if this trend continues, nine years from now, there will be no tigers left in the wild.

Tekst: Jurriaan Teulings