Saving wild tigers requires preserving and protecting large areas of forest while at the same time combating the never-ending demand for forest products by the overpopulated periphery villages. The tiger has become a symbol of global conservation and efforts to try and save the tiger have become ever so pertinent in recent years. Ecologists [...]

Travelling along the river beside the villages of the Sundarbans, the beauty of the forest is truly amazing. Sunlight glistening over the water, the sound of the waves, the sights and sounds of various birds and the endless green forest brings a sense of serenity. But as the boatmen mention, the area was much more [...]

Hi everyone! Nazneen is back again with news from the Sundarbans Tiger Project (STP). The Communication team of our project has been doing a    Knowledge, Attitude and Practise (KAP) survey since last July. The last phase of this survey requires us to conduct structured questionnaires with urban dwellers and semi-structured interviews with three target [...]

With fewer than 3200 individuals in the wild, the situation becomes really tense every time a tiger strays into the human locality of the Sundarbans because this results all too often in its death at the hands of the local villagers. And that accounts for one tiger lost. Just a few weeks ago we lost [...]

In July we at Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB) came to know that the 29th of the same month had been declared as the Global Tiger Day by the Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) and all tiger ranging countries would celebrate this day as a step to increase awareness to support tiger conservation. The Ministry of [...]

Hello, this is Nazneen from the Sundarbans Tiger Project. This time I would like to introduce you with another team of our project – Participatory Management and Community Outreach team comprising Modinul, Ashraful, Mahbub, Khairul, Alam and Mizan. With a view to provide field level assistance to villagers for managing different human-tiger conflict situations, these [...]