- Six more tigers found in Sunderbans
Tigers are burning bright in the Sunderbans. After detecting the presence of two new big cats outside the reserve area last month, the came...
19 Apr, 2014, 03.38 AM IST
Solar lights to ward off tigers at Sundernbans' villagesWWF-India has launched the project — 'Lights for Stripe' — to install solar lights along the edge of villages on the fringe areas of the ti...
11 Mar, 2014, 05.00 AM IST
Sunderbans tiger count steady, but prey base not enoughEven though there is euphoria over a minimum 103 tigers in the Sunderbans, a new study shows the prey abundance is supporting not more than...
28 Feb, 2014, 01.32 AM IST
- Nothing truly Bengali about Royal Bengal Tiger?
Gene studies say that the Sunderbans tiger population is identical to the tiger population of central India and has been isolated recently,...
04 Nov, 2013, 01.55 AM IST
Tiger prey base count in SunderbansPrey base of tigers in the Sunderbans, mostly spotted deer and wild boars, has always been under scanner.
14 Aug, 2013, 04.51 AM IST
- Call of the wild for zoo tiger
It's right out of the cult wildlife movie 'Born Free', where a lion cub - abandoned after its mother's death - is reared by humans and rele...
28 Jun, 2013, 02.08 AM IST
Sunderbans has more tigers than official estimateA recent camera-trap study by WWF-India and the West Bengal forest department has detected the presence of at least 77 tigers in the mangro...
25 May, 2013, 05.29 AM IST
- Tiger carcass found in Sunderbans
The body of a full-grown tiger was found in the Sunderbans on Sunday.
11 Mar, 2013, 02.33 AM IST
Sunderbans mystery: Tigers getting weaker?A tigress was captured in the Sunderbans on Monday evening after foresters found some abnormality in its movement.
05 Mar, 2013, 02.37 AM IST
Shrinking prey base forces tigers to change behavioural patternSeventy-year-old Haren Mondal of Jamespur is familiar with the tiger's odour.
24 Sep, 2012, 05.14 AM IST
- Low prey density plagues Sunderbans: Study
WII's scientist Y V Jhala said that a total of 187 kilometres of boat transects were carried out between February and May to get an idea ab...
07 Aug, 2012, 05.59 AM IST
- Tiger census ends in Sunderbans
A tiger census in Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, ended during which data and scats for DNA samplings of the big cats were...
11 Mar, 2010, 07.04 PM IST
- Tiger census begins in Sunderbans
The much-awaited tiger census in the Sunderbans, where DNA sampling would be made for the first time to establish the number of big cats, b...
04 Mar, 2010, 06.18 PM IST
- DNA sampling for tiger census in Sunderbans
The West Bengal government for the first time will conduct tiger census through DNA sampling of the animal's scat in Sunderbans in January ...
23 Nov, 2009, 05.43 PM IST
- Hungry Aila tide swallows a dozen tigers
As the human toll from Monday’s cyclone rose to 64, beat officers and range officials in the Sunderbans feared hundreds of herbivores and a...
27 May, 2009, 07.41 AM IST
- Cyclone Aila swallows Sunderbans tigers
Forest wardens fear that as the cyclone Aila tore through the Sunderbans, it may have killed more than a dozen of the highly endangered Ben...
27 May, 2009, 03.05 AM IST
- Sunderbans tiger was shot twice
It may be the first time in two decades that a tiger has been poached in Sunderbans. The carcass of the adult male, with two bullet injurie...
08 Oct, 2008, 12.56 PM IST