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Simon Reeve visits India鈥檚 Satpura National Park, which is supposed to be home to a large number of tigers, India's iconic symbol.

The park is in the area of India where Kipling set The Jungle Book.

But rampant poaching, corruption and loss of habitat has resulted in tiger numbers collapsing across India.

There are now more tigers living in captivity in Florida than there are living wild in India.

Simon went on an elephant-back safari hunting for tigers, but failed to spot a single big cat.

Instead he fell in love with Roopkali, his elephant, and gave her a good scrub in a river at the end of a hot day of tiger-searching.

As India's population increases still further there is less land for wildlife, including tigers and elephants, and India's greatest wild treasures are being forced into smaller and smaller parcels of land.