The Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, G Kishan Reddy, has pointed out that Telangana was one of the few states where tiger population had declined, and that the Funds released by the Centre for compensatory afforestation over the past three years remain unutilised. This problem is worsened by the state's lack of utilisation of funds, as well as its poor sustenance of the new trees planted on alternate land.

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