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| Muhammed, N.; Kamal, M.T.; Haque, F.; Chowdhury, M.S.H.; Koike, M. | |
| A study on the royal Bengal tiger of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh with special reference to tiger-human conflict | |
| 2007 Journal of Social Research and Development (4): 86-91 | |
Human-tiger conflict recently appears as a major issue in all the tiger range countries; especially in areas with higher forest dependency where tigers and people coexist for multiple resources extraction. The Sundarban as a World Heritage site is the largest chunk of productive mangrove forests in the world. About 2.2 million people from the immediate vicinities directly depend on this forest for their livelihood. In Bangladesh, there is little information about tiger-human conflict issue. Adequate policies and implementation measures are not formulated to address this issue. In this study, to illustrate the tiger-human conflict, parameters like, trend of tiger victims, profession and age class of the victims, temporal pattern of human casualties, tiger killing and present situation and expectation of the tiger victim families, over view of the conflict situation are interpreted along with a set of recommendations. Between 1990 and 2003, on an average yearly 21 human casualties and 3 tiger casualties were recorded. Habitat disturbance is reducing the tiger home range in one hand, poor people has to depend largely on forest for their livelihood on the other hand. Therefore, tiger and human being stand in a conflicting situation. To mitigate the conflicts, appropriate technical measures like adoption of disruptive stimuli, habitat modification (although it has limited scope to apply in the SRF), translocation, increasing tolerance through cultural practice, education approach and compensation scheme need to be adopted by the authority. |
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