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Tiger attacks on rise in Indian Sundarbans after cyclone

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Tiger attacks on rise in Indian Sundarbans after cyclone

July 30th, 2008 – 12:41 pm ICT by IANS

By Soudhriti Bhabani

Kolkata, July 30 (IANS) A rise in tiger attacks in the Sundarbans mangrove forests of India indicates that the big cats are crossing over from Bangladesh where Cyclone Sidr destroyed much of their habitat, say wildlife activists in West Bengal. “A large number of tigers and crocodiles have entered into India’s side of the Sundarbans after being flushed out by Cyclonic Sidr that ravaged Bangladesh in November last year,” Debasis Chakraborty, wildlife crusader and People for Animals (PFA) managing trustee, told IANS.

“A vast area of mangrove forests was affected by that natural disaster leading to a serious displacement of wild animals.”

He said a fisherman, Putul Naskar, was dragged away by a tiger at Benipheli forest in the Sundarbans Sunday morning when he was busy catching crabs from the river.

“This was the ninth tiger attack in the Sundarbans since December last year and the sixth in the monsoon season. The tigers from Bangladesh side crossed the water channel and entered the Sundarbans in West Bengal through the Jhilla point in search of food.

“These tigers are not familiar with the human habitation and are attacking people very frequently,” Chakraborty said.

The Sundarbans has a vast area covering 4,262 sq km, including a mangrove cover of 2,125 sq km, in India alone. A larger portion lies in Bangladesh.

Cyclone Sidr in the Bay of Bengal left behind a trail of devastation last year killing over 3,000 people and uprooting a large area of the mangrove forests in Bangladesh.

West Bengal Sundarbans Affairs Minister Kanti Ganguly told IANS: “A good number of tigers might have come to this (India) side in search of food. They are also attacking people living in the deltaic region.”

Chakraborty said: “We request all villagers of the Sundarbans not to go out for fishing and collect forest products inside the core area during monsoon, though it’s regarded as off-season for tiger attacks.

“This is their (tigers’) mating season and they prefer to stay inside the dense forest area. But because of big cat infiltration from Bangladesh the tiger concentration has increased in the Sundarbans bio-sphere,” Chakraborty said.

According to reports, an 18-year-old fisherman, Narayan Das, was mauled to death at Kultali in the Sunderbans a few weeks ago.

In another incident, a tiger attacked 45-year-old Jangal Pramanik in Kultali when he was out with a fishing team in the Surjyamoni canal. A tiger suddenly pounced on Pramanik and injured him severely. When other fishermen raised an alarm, the tiger ran away.

A 45-year-old woman was killed in a crocodile attack while catching crabs in a river last week.

A tiger had sneaked into a farmer’s kitchen in the Sunderbans, triggering fear among the villagers.

“This kind of behaviour is not common among the Sundarbans tiger. It is very familiar with human habitation and hardly comes to the densely populated areas during monsoon.

“Sundarbans tigers are also experts in catching their prey. But the behaviour of tigers from the Bangladesh side, which were uprooted from their original territory due to Cyclone Sidr, is very unpredictable.”

Sunderbans is perhaps the only place in the world where man is not on top of the food chain. The tiger’s predatory instincts clash with human nature constantly in the Sundarbans, leading to a deadly battle for survival between the two.

Minister Ganguly said the state government was also planning pig and buffalo farming along the riverbanks in West Bengal’s Sundarbans.

“The project would be undertaken to provide food to the tigers and check the rising number of attacks.”

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/tiger-attacks-on-rise-in-indian-sundarbans-after-cyclone_10077600.html

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