歐印高峰會（Europe-India summit）日前於9月29日在法國馬賽召開，印度野生老虎的保育問題不僅獲得高度關注，歐洲議會更在高峰會前，於24日通過一項決議，邀請各政黨同為野生老虎請命，將議題排入此次會談議程。就在今（2008）年6月，印度政府才設立了印度野生動物犯罪防治專局（Indian Wildlife Crime Control Bureau），處理野生動物違法獵捕問題。
歐洲議會的決議文中表示，「很高興印度野生動物防治局設置，未來將與印度持續為野生老虎的困境作更深層的努力，遏止棲地破壞與跨國網絡販售」
對此議題積極關注的歐洲自由民主黨員倫敦代表（Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for London）拉德福德（Baroness Sarah Ludford）指出，「在促進實施與處理非法老虎貿易網絡上，印度透過野生動物犯罪防治局的設立，跨出了重要一步。」
旨在打擊環境犯罪、總部設於英國倫敦與華盛頓特區的非營利組織環境調查協會（Environmental Investigation Agency）指出，目前全世界的野生老虎至少有2500隻，而其中印度佔了一半。
據世界自然保育聯盟貓科專家小組（IUCN's Cat Specialist Group）指出，這幾千隻老虎是自20世紀初調查時100,000隻裡唯一的僅存。
這些存活下的老虎面臨中國與東亞對毛皮及身體部位的索求、因伐林造成棲地減少與違法工業發展的威脅。
儘管有大量證據指出，有組織的大型環境犯罪普遍存在，但世界各地的執法行動與取締仍顯不足。不過，保育人士仍樂觀的指出，只要採取適當措施，老虎數量便能迅速恢復。
In advance of the Europe-India summit in Marseille next Monday, the European Parliament today passed a resolution calling on both parties to renew efforts to save the wild tiger, and to place the issue on the summit agenda.
In June, the government of India established a dedicated agency for tackling wildlife crime, the Indian Wildlife Crime Control Bureau.
The parliamentary resolution, "Welcomes the foundation of the Indian Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, while remaining deeply concerned about the plight of the wild tiger, and calls on India to protect tigers from habitat loss and trafficking by transnational criminal networks."
Baroness Sarah Ludford, Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for London, who has campaigned on the issue, said, "By setting up the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, India has taken an important step towards improving enforcement and tackling the networks behind illegal tiger trade."
Currently, there may be as few as 2,500 tigers left in the wild, of which just over half are in India, says the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nonprofit group based in London, UK and Washington, DC, which works to combat environmental crime.
These few thousand tigers are the only ones left from the 100,000 wild tigers that are estimated to have lived at the beginning of the 20th century, according to the IUCN's Cat Specialist Group.
These remaining tigers are threatened by demand for their skins and body parts from China and East Asia, and habitat loss due to forest clearance and illegal industrial development.
Despite widespread evidence of the serious and organized nature of wildlife and environmental crime, enforcement efforts in many parts of the world remain inadequate.
Still, conservationists are optimistic, pointing out that if the right measures are taken tigers can recover rapidly.
