6 suspected tiger poachers killed in Bangladesh shootout

[Playinghardball]

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- At least six suspected wildlife poachers were killed in an armed encounter with law enforcement in the southern Bangladeshi district of Khulna, the prime habitat of endangered Bengal tigers, police said Sunday.

Police official Habibur Rahman said that police who form part of an anti-poaching drive had returned fire after poachers shot at them in the Sundarbans forest.

The officers seized five guns and three tiger skins at the scene, about 120 miles from Dhaka, the capital.

A recent government survey found that the number of big cats in the world's largest mangrove forest in Khulna has decreased drastically, with only about 100 Bengal tigers left in the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans, a region that has been declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO.

Experts who carried out the World Bank-funded study using camera traps said poaching and pollution played roles in the reduction of the Bengal tiger population in Bangladesh.

(c)2015 Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)

http://www.arcamax.com/currentnews/newsheadlines/s-1704106?ezine=567

[lpbk2713]

1. If the poachers fired first they decided their own fate.

And that might go towards helping the dwindling tiger population.

[COLGATE4]

2. Do you suppose they'll make rugs out of the poachers? nt

[Arugula Latte]

5. Make rugs with the bodies and hang their heads on a wall,

with their mouths open in a fierce expression.

[TeeYiYi]

3. Good. ..nt

TYY

[Polly Hennessey]

4. Good, too.

[pansypoo53219]

6. poach the poachers DEAD.

[Doingto]

7. We should make up our minds regarding the death penalty

Is it good or bad? Everyone so far is happy that the price these evil tiger-killers paid was death.