India's tiger numbers surge amid conservation-community conflict

India will announce a successful tiger population recovery despite decades of criticism over human rights violations in protected areas.
The Indigenous communities that have inhabited India's forests for generations remain largely landless and impoverished.
Environmental groups hail India's tiger numbers as a global conservation success story, while rights groups decry broken promises of land reform.
Calls grow for a conservation model that partners with rather than displaces India's Adivasi groups, who have co-existed with wildlife for millennia.
With India home to 75% of the world's wild tigers, striking a balance between nature and people in the subcontinent could shape global conservation.