Photos: As India Marks 50 Years Of Project Tiger, See the Beast in All Its Glory

Tigers are terminal consumers in the ecological food chain & their conservation conserves the whole ecosystem.

(Mritunjay Tiwary gave up city life to work for blind people and the girl child in rural Bihar but retained his passion for wildlife and landscape photography. This story was originally published on 29 July 2017. It has been republished from The Quint's archives as India marks 50 years of Project Tiger. The project was launched in 1973 under the Indira Gandhi government as a conservation programme for Bengal Tigers in their natural habitat.)