New Delhi [India], January 11 (ANI/ATK): The Jaipur International Film Festival presented awards to the winners at the 15th edition of the festival at Maharana Pratap Auditorium. The festival is currently in progress till January 10, 2023. Warren Pereira's "Tiger 24" took home the Yellow Rose award in the Documentary Feature Category. In "Tiger 24" when a wild tiger kills men who enter his territory he is declared a man-eater and locked up in a zoo. This galvanizes massive social uproar and activists take their cause to the streets, online, on billboards and all the way to India's highest courts including the Jaipur High Court. "I am very pleased to receive an award from The Jaipur International Film Festival for TIGER 24 because a major part of TIGER 24's story occurs in Jaipur and with the involvement of local government officials, conservationists and activists." - Warren Pereira, Director TIGER 24. TIGER 24's previous awards include the
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI/ATK): As T24, an Icon For Tiger Conservation Dies In Captivity, activists, Warren Pereira, Raveena Tandon, forest officers and activists remember India's most controversial Tiger T-24, popularly called Ustad, the formerly dominant male tiger of Ranthambore died in captivity on December 28, 2022. This big cat who was known to be fearless and a "man-eater" was controversially removed from the wild in 2015 for killing at least 4 men who entered his territory. Activists largely argue that the tiger was acting in self-defense while the forest department believed he was killing humans as prey and had to be removed in the larger interest of conservation. Yet other believe that some other predator was responsible for human kills attributed to T-24. Social media brawls, 'Save Ustad' billboards, the High Court, The Supreme Court and candle light marches were wall part of the uproar around this powerful specimen of the national animal of Ind