PHOTO OF THE DAY January 25, 2005  

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Where Asia
When 1996
Photographer Dilip Mehta

"At the beginning of the 20th century, perhaps 100,000 tigers hunted Asia. Today, on the eve of the 21st, no more than 6,000 remain."

—Text from "Tiger Country," May/June 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Tiger Country," May/June 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)


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