"There are about 1800 tigers in India, living in disconnected forests. Each year, the country loses more of these animals to poachers, thoughtless development and illegal encroachments. We need to redouble our efforts to make the tiger a globally revered symbol of the ecosystem in which our own species depends," said Patel, who visited Ranthambore twice a month for the last three years to take some extraordinary shots of tigers.

Patel's campaign is majorly about a photo exhibition that has some of the choicest photographs clicked by her during various trips. One shows a tiger with its game, the other shows it walking leisurely on a mud path. In one photograph, a tigress sits while her cubs play around her; in another, a tiger takes a bath while a bird sits very close to it.

The mantra the wildlife photographer wants to preach is simple: stop killing tigers, stop destructing their forests, and nature's self repairing systems will do the rest. On why she chose to start her series of exhibitions from Ahmedabad, Patel said, "Gujarat has done a good job of preserving the Asiatic lion population. I want to tell every person that with a little effort, we can restore the population of the big cats. Once we stop buying products made from tiger skin, obviously poaching also stops."

After Ahmedabad, the exhibition will travel to every state in India before it goes international. Her campaign has been seen as a positive sign by the Gujarat chief minister as well. Patel has been appreciated for her independent effort to help save the royal creature by wildlife publications too.