yes says a young stockbroker and the team behind a wildly ambitious online project to find and follow indias remaining wild tigers armed with a new weapon social media yolande dmello speaks to urban professionals and entrepreneurs using the power of twitter facebook sms and email to save indias wildlife saptarishi saigals week is a demanding one the stockbroker with aditya birla money ltd from jabalpur in madhya pradesh spends monday to friday tracking the markets highs and lows come saturday morning the 29yearold drives twoandahalf hours to get to bandhavgarh national park spends hours with villagers and discusses depleting natural reserves with forest officials of the 90odd villages along the periphery of the park that has the highest known tiger population in india saigal has managed to survey 25 and mediates between locals who lose their cattle to tiger attacks and officials on issues of compensation and relocation this has been his routine since 2007 two weeks ago on a muggy afternoon there was a breach in the schedule when saigal spotted a tigress snuggling with her cubs christened kankati cuteared by the locals because of deep scars on her ears her first litter has been fathered by bamera bandhavgarhs dominant male tiger a cautious saigal pulled out his nikon d700 to capture private moments of the family find shoot upload in the next few hours the pictures were uploaded on wwwtigernationorg a twomonthold social networking site that wants to find and follow indias remaining wild tigers founded by british conservationist julian matthews it allows its 1000 members to sign up for free create a profile and follow their favourite tigers in bandhavgarh and ranthambhore rajasthan while receiving realtime updates about their movement via photographs videos and blog posts uploaded on the hour vacationers who visit indian tiger reserves upload their pictures on facebook anyway we figured why not use this data intelligently to keep a watch on the tiger population says matthews tigernations core team includes experienced conservationists who identify tigers in every new upload looking for a match in their database the collated information makes its way to a special profile page created for each tiger according to matthews ranthambhore has 46 tigers 22 new cubs were born between october 2011 and may 2012 while bandhavgarh has 26 identified tigers and several unrecorded ones the idea is to record every tiger in india through citizen photography mapping and tracking the population creates a better chance of survival says satyendra tiwari who runs a lodge in bandhavgarhs tala village and is on tigernations team coming up is the launch of a unique identification software that costs millions of pounds developed by georgios michalakidis director of uk software development firm thoughtified it will help the team identify tigers based on their stripes much like fingerprints imitating facebook its a winwin situation the experts say with this exhaustive database at the disposal of park field directors border and intelligence agencies ngos and wildlife organisations for the urban members its