The three articles in this series contain half-truths. The law regarding forests in India is a relic of the British times. In Canada and in Australia, the governments have openly apologized for the imperialist curtailment of the people's rights in forest. In India, the govt did not have the decency to apologize, but had enacted the Rights in Forest Act in 2006 and it is said to be under implementation. For ages, the forests had been the private estate of a set of bureaucrats of the Forest Departments. In a couple of centuries of such dictatorial rule, the area under forest shrank until these same dictators shed crocodile tears over it. The tribal people had been there for millennia, and forest and wild life had been maintained in stable proportion to humans until the british and their imperialist camp followers grabbed them. Now, the new Act is a step in the right direction. The highest priority it gives is for "Inviolate Wild Life Habitats". But these are not to be arbitrarily judged by the forest department bureaucrats and their admirers. A set of scientists has to decide it. This is what has made the dictators so desperate. Tiger population statistics are interesting. Even decades after Rathambore passed into the strict domain of the departmental bosses, tiger population is being poached on, and is reported to be going down. But when "Tiger Reserves" are proposed, statistics are turned round to show that tiger populations are stable. The departmental statistics fall in the series, "lies, damn lies, statistics, and wild life statistics in India." Let us shed our imperialistic and bureaucratic hang overs. And do justice to our people, the poorest of the poor rather than the affluent ex maharajas posing as patrons of wild life, and their sycophants.