The Sunderbans are perhaps the last true wild frontier of the Indian Subcontinent and conflict between man and animal is quite common. On the initiative both of the Field Director of the Tiger Reserve and WWF India West Bengal State Office several local youth, who before mostly had been poachers, were motivated to support the Forest Department in different conservation
The Sundarbans Tiger project is a Bangladesh Forest Department initiative, done in cooperation with the University of Minnesota, that aims to facilitate the effective conservation of wild tigers (Panthera tigris) in Bangladesh.
This report describes the current and recent past geographical range of the tiger. It provides spatial data on tiger distribution at the tehsil level and its associated landscape characterization; a precursor for land use planning incorporating conservation concerns and priorities.
It is still a common belief that tigers in the wild will eat only creatures that they kill themselves. The first part of this paper gives a review of case histories of scavenging tigers to disprove that false opinion. This knowledge make the management of tigers in the wild easier with the possibility of a carcass-baiting tool and enables to hinder poachers from using the same. The second part of this paper draws attention to related aspects of the man-eating problem. This might be useful for better understanding and further discussions of the matter.
Study was conducted to gain a better understanding on the impact of tiger attacks on people by tigers from the Sundarbans. From the study, it was observed that the highest number of tiger attacks occurred in Shatkhira and lowest in Khulna range.
Cruel punishment: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Refugee Coordination Unit (RCU) recently stopped food distribution to 3,142 refugees in Bhutans' Jhapa refugee
The Sundarban delta region in the Bay of Bengal, with 10,000 square kilometres of estuarine mangrove forest and 102 islands, is the world s largest delta. The land here is an eerie muddle of landmass and sea, with mudflats and waves engaged in unrelenting
