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epa01253586 (FILES) Indian Forest officials stand around the body of a full grown male Royal Bengal Tiger who was about 10 years old and 9 feet long after it was hit by a train at Dolan rail bridge at the Falakata area near the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary in Cooch Behar district, some 140 km far from Indian city of Siliguri, on 18 June 2007. A new governments census released 12 February 2008 indicates that India's Tiger population as declined in the last five years. The numbers of the endangered species have fallen to 1411 down from 3642 in the last major in 2002. EPA/STR