Injured Sundarbans tiger taken to Kolkata zoo for treatment

September 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - At least 150,000 people have been rendered homeless due to heavy rainfall in a large portion of southern West Bengal, including Sundarbans, in the past three days, an official said Monday. Houses were swept away during the heavy downpour and embankments were breached at several places in the tidal mangrove forest that is the Sundarbans, forcing villagers to move.

July 23rd, 2009 SUNDERBANS - A 12 year-old male tiger returned to his familiar territory of the Sunderban Tiger Reserve in West Bengal on Wednesday after four months of treatment in captivity. The tiger had wounded his right hind leg in March this year.

July 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - The allocation of Rs.1,000 crore in the union budget Monday for rebuilding the infrastructure damaged by Cyclone Aila in West Bengal was welcomed by the state government and NGOs working there, but they said the money was insufficient. Kanti Ganguly, the minister in charge of the Sundarbans region, said: "We welcome this announcement as the first phase of disbursement.

July 6th, 2009 SUNDARBANS - Wildlife authorities released a tigress with animal tracking chip to keep an eye on the psychological behaviour of the big cat in Sundarbans forests in West Bengal. The seven-year old tigress, which had entered Satjelia village under Gosaba block of the Sundarbans delta a few days ago, was trapped on July 2.

June 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting and Trinamool Congress leader C.M Jatua Sunday alleged that West Bengal's ruling Left Front government has taken no initiative to maintain the natural embankments in the Sundarbans region. "The situation in Sundarban Islands is dangerous, especially after the cyclone Aila.

June 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - The water level in the Sundarbans' rivers continued to rise Saturday due to the full moon high tide, but the weakening and diversion of the low pressure zone over the Bay of Bengal has brought some comfort to the thousands of marooned residents of West Bengal's mangrove forested delta. "The low-pressure zone has shifted to the northwest Bay of Bengal.

June 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - Cyclone Aila that devastated parts of West Bengal last month damaged solar power panels worth Rs.50 crore (Rs.500 million) in the Sundarbans, an official said here Friday. "We've estimated that a huge bulk of solar panel devices worth Rs.50 crore was completely damaged due to cyclone Aila last week in Sundarbans," the managing director of West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation Ltd, S.P Gon Chowdhury told reporters on the sidelines of a enviromental conference.

May 30th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal government will rebuild 400 kms of embankments destroyed by Cyclone Aila in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans in an effort to save the region from any more floods in the coming monsoon. "We'll start constructing 400 kms of embankments in Sundarbans and will try to finish the work within the next one week," state Irrigation Minister Subhas Naskar told reporters after surveying the cyclone-hit villages in the Sundarbans Saturday.

May 28th, 2009 PORT CANNING - Cyclone Aila that originated over the Bay of Bengal on Monday and caused havoc in many parts of West Bengal and Bangladesh might not have harmed the Royal Bengal tigers of Sundarbans in West Bengal. In Sundarbans, heavy downpour raised river levels while the gushing waters of flooded mangroves burst mud embankments in the extensive delta region, destroying hundreds of thousands of houses.

May 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - Cyclone Aila that hit the eastern Indian coast scared a Royal Bengal tiger out of the Sundarbans national park and into an inhabited area in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, according to information reaching here Tuesday. The tiger moved near Jamespur village in Satjelia island where it terrorised villagers for a whole day before returning to the protected forest area, said A.

May 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A tiger killed a woman and mauled several other people in an Uttar Pradesh village, officials said Monday. The tiger, which strayed out of the Katarniyaghat forest reserve in Bahraich district, entered the Thadbehna village in the district, where it Sunday night killed a 65-year-old woman Sudha, they added.

May 13th, 2009 GOSABA - Ashok Mondal of Jamespur village walked 45 minutes to reach his polling station Wednesday. He was happy he didn't have to travel hours by boat instead, as officials set up a polling station in his island in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world.

April 16th, 2009 BHOPAL - A tiger cub succumbed to injuries here after being hurt by an adult tiger. Eleven months old Pancham was brought in an injured condition to Bhopal's Van Vihar National Park on April 4.

March 25th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal forest officials Wednesday said they have arrested two people for allegedly smuggling a tiger skin from the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve (STR). 'We arrested two persons from Sundarbans late Tuesday night who were smuggling out a skin of a full-grown tiger from the forest territory,' South 24-Parganas Divisional Forest Officer S.

December 27th, 2008 KOLKATA - Three people, including a girl and a forest official, were injured when a tiger sneaked into a West Bengal village near Sundarbans Sunday morning. The man-eater was later caged by the forest department officials.