HAZARIBAGH, Jharkhand, India — As a new environmental consciousness becomes more entrenched, the focus for conserving the so-called "flagship species" such as the great predator tigers and bears, and also elephants, has shifted. When India's Project Tiger was started in the 1970s with the purpose of bringing the great cat back from the brink of extinction, it was implemented with an "island" type of mentality, creating tiger sanctuaries but neglecting to consider the forests in between them.