Sundarbans literally means "beautiful forest," but as the novelist Amitav Ghosh writes, "There is no prettiness here to invite the stranger in." The largest mangrove forest in the world — home to ...

KOLKATA: Camera traps - installed in the Indian Sundarbans between last Nov and this Jan during the routine annual exercise to monitor tiger population on the delta - have revealed presence of a pair ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Kolkata: The all-India tiger estimation exercise will kick off in the Indian Sundarbans on Nov 25 with installation of camera traps across the tiger reserve and divisional forest areas spanning over 4 ...

The Sundarbans is often described as the "home" of tigers. But that is not the whole truth. Undoubtedly, it is a habitat and a home for multispecies, including humans, whose lives are entangled, ...

In the shifting mudflats and mangrove thickets of the Sundarbans, survival is a constant negotiation. For the Bonojibis— the people who depend on its marshy terrain, venturing out for fish, honey, and ...

Recent surveys of big cats and prey in the Sundarbans indicate that numbers for both have increased significantly in recent years, thanks to different conservation measures taken by the Bangladesh ...

KOLKATA: On the occasion of Global Tiger Day on Tuesday, at least five fishermen's boats in the Sundarbans will get a GPS-based SOS alarm system that will transmit real-time distress signals to forest ...

About 300 people and 46 tigers have been killed since 2000 in human-tiger conflicts in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans. Authorities here have decided to install fencing along the rivers and canals that the ...

MYSURU: In a proactive effort to address the rising man-tiger conflict in villages bordering the Bandipur and Nagarahole Tiger Reserves, forest officials have adopted a unique strategy inspired by ...

A fisherman who escaped the jaws of a tiger but was left with a paralysed hand now runs a small tea stall. A widow, who lost her husband to a tiger attack, has pulled her eldest son out of school to ...

Sundarbans literally means "beautiful forest," but as the novelist Amitav Ghosh writes, "There is no prettiness here to invite the stranger in." Journey To The Sundarbans: The 'Beautiful Forest' Of ...