Dasgupta, Susmita; Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin; Wheeler, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
As the wild tiger population in tropical Asia dropped from about 100,000 to 3,500 in the last century, the need to conserve tiger habitats poses a challenge for the Global Tiger Recovery Program. This paper develops and uses a high-resolution monthly forest clearing database for 74 tiger habitat...