Where tigers and people fight for space (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Alastair Lawson
BBC News, Katakhali village, Bangladesh

On 23 January 2006, Bangladeshi wildlife ranger Abdul Rob received an urgent telephone call at his base on the fringes of the Sundarbans mangrove forest.

A royal Bengal tiger had been surrounded by hundreds of people living in the village of Katakhali - near his outpost - and they were threatening to beat it to death because they believed it had been attacking their livestock.

Officials say a similar kind of incident has happened 26 times in the last nine years in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh - the world's largest mangrove forest and the main habitat of tigers in the country.

In the overwhelming majority of cases, the tiger has been killed.

'Ludicrous suggestion'

"Far more tigers are killed in these kind of incidents than by poachers," said Mr Rob.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7128643.stm

[Nihil]

1. The only sensible thing to do ...

... is feed the never-ending supply of people to the increasingly rare
supply of tigers! Problem solved!

Sadly, it is to the shame of the whole human race that the tigers are
the ones that will die out first ...
:cry: