TIGERSINTHEFOREST

My interest in mammals began at a very early age when my parents always encouraged me to love and respect wildlife. At home we were never without a pet cat and since those early years my continued love and fascination towards wildlife has grown and developed with a particularly strong affinity towards the conservation and photography of ‘big cats'-principally the tiger. The photograph on the right is of myself in 2008 with a young rescued leopard well on its way to recovery and which has since been successfully released into the wild at Ranthambhore in India... The tiger in the photograph below is known as B2 or ‘Sundar' and he was for many years the dominant male tiger of the Tala range which is open to tourists at Bandhavgarh tiger reserve in India. He was the first wild tiger that I sighted... Michael J Vickers is a wildlife conservationist and photographer with a passion for travelling to India in search of tigers in their natural habitat.

Primary location: United Kingdom