Tiger skin recovered from Sundarbans, two arrested

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 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 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 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.

May 9th, 2009 BHOPAL - Yet another tiger, the second in a fortnight, has been found dead in Madhya Pradesh's Bandhavgarh National Park, its director said Saturday. He, however, ruled out the possibility of poachers killing the animal.

April 8th, 2009 Ghaziabad:AP - The Ghaziabad police arrested two people with a tiger skin and antlers of a 'barasingha' here Wednesday, officials said. 'The tiger skin and the antlers of a barasingha ( a species of a deer) were recovered from Omendra and Anees, residents of Meerut, when their car was stopped at the Mohan Nagar checkpost,' Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Happy Guptan said.

March 19th, 2009 RAMNAGAR - The Jim Corbett National Park wildlife officials on Sunday found the body of a four-year-old tiger during routine patrolling in the buffer zone of the national park in Uttarakhand. Officials have ruled out any foul play in the death and said that the big cat could have died due to natural reasons.

March 18th, 2009 HAMILTON - India's cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar Tuesday batted for tiger conservation, alarmed by their fast decline. 'At the start of the century, there were nearly 40,000 tigers in India.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A woman was mauled to death by a tiger when she entered a forest near the Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand to collect fuel wood, officials said Thursday. The incident took place Wednesday at the Sarpduli forest range, just outside the park.

January 18th, 2009 BHOPAL - A four-year-old male tiger was killed in a turf war with another tiger in Madhya Pradesh's Kanha National Park, officials said Monday. The tiger's body, with deep bruises, was found at the Kisla range of the park.

December 30th, 2008 KOLKATA - The West Bengal forest department Wednesday took an injured Royal Bengal tiger to Kolkata zoo after the big cat strayed into a village in Sundarbans Tuesday morning. 'The tiger was taken to Kolkata zoo today (Wednesday) and is now under medical observation of our expert team.

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.