Partially patting the government for the surge in tiger numbers across the country to 2,226, Valmik complimented people from non-governmental organisations and field workers of the forest department for the increase in tiger population. "India now hosts 70% of the world's tigers. But tiger population goes in a cyclic manner and just as their number have increased they will suddenly drop unless the government opts for a PPP model within the forest department too," he said.

"In almost every department the government has adopted such a model. One fails to understand why the forest department has not taken to it till now. Field directors should have the option of selecting experts from private while deciding on his team to protect and work for tigers. This should be a wake up call for the forest department and space has to be created for naturalists, poaching experts, wildlife scientists etc even from the private within the department," Valmik added.

Valmik felt laws surrounding wildlife and forest must be simplified. "There is the Forest Rights Act that gives inhabitants with the core area of a forest rights to be there but then there is the Wildlife Protection Act that says core areas to be an inviolate one. Contradictions such as these keep matters pending for years and even judges are sometimes at a loss when hearing cases on then. An expert team should be constituted comprising people from the government and private and all such laws simplified," he said.

In fact, Valmik added that his next book, Real Solutions to be published in May, deals with such ideas for conservation of tigers in the country.

Justifying his advocacy of PPP model for forests, he said, "The Sariska tiger reserve should have seen all the villagers living within it relocated before tigers were brought in once again as per the Supreme Court directives. But till now just a handful of villagers have been relocated. If village relocation experts are brought in from the private then perhaps the job would have been better handled," he said.