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The man-animal conflict in the Sunderbans has touched scores of women tragically, leaving Jelepara a village of 'tiger widows'

Trouble Prowling
Jelepara village, in the Sunderbans, is known as the Village of Widows, because of the large number of its inhabitants killed by man-eating tigers

Publication Date: 
30/03/2009
Dola Mitra [2]
Outlook (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Ecology [4], Sundarbans [5], Tiger [6], People - Animal Conflicts [7]
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