‘It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.’ —Faulkner
For the past three months, a team of 150 people using 100 trap cameras, drones, hang-gliders, sniffer dogs, elephants, sharp shooters, and expert trackers struggled through a forested area in central India’s Maharashtra state to hunt down a man-eating tigress. On Friday night, after an alleged attempt to tranquilize the animal, a bullet from the gun of a controversial hunter killed the big cat.
The 6-year-old tigress, officially named T1 but dubbed “Avni” (which means Earth in Hindi) by conservationists, was linked to at least 13 human deaths over the last two years.
oil on canvas { Peter Paul Rubens, The Tiger Hunt, 1615—1616 | Jeff Koons for Louis Vuitton, 2017 }
