There has been a flurry of activity at Writers Buildings ahead of the vital meeting, including several rounds of pre-meet sessions between senior officials. The Prime Minister personally visited Ranthambhore recently to make an on-the-spot assessment of the situation and has appealed to all states with a tiger population to save the big cats from extinction at the hands of poachers. ''We will tell the CM that we want more forest guards. Ideally, we should have 2,500 forest guards but at present we have only 1,500... there is a shortage of 1000 people,” Burman informed Newsline. ''Besides, we need more coordination with the Bangladesh government, where we believe poaching is more rampant,'' the minister added. The Sunderbans, which has a tiger population of 274, has a common border with Bangladesh. The state governent is planning to set up wildlife intelligence bureaus in all the forests of the state, Burman said. The centres will consist of people from state IB and the forest department.