article_snippet: India is about one-third the size of the continental United States, with four times as many people.
article_snippet: According to the animal conservation group Born Free, there are more tigers in cages in Texas than in the forests of India.
article_snippet: Almost half a billion rural Indians have no plumbing and answer nature's call by squatting in the forest.
article_snippet: The latest tiger census counted 2,226 big cats in India, a 30% increase over the previous count in 2011.
article_snippet: If the estimates hold, this would make India the only country in the world with a growing tiger population.
highlights_snippet: There are more tigers in cages in Texas than in the wild in India, a conservation group says .
  