Tiger’s Incapacity: Majority of man-eaters tigers was not fit to hunt their regular prey.Mosttigers attack humans only when they are physically unfit to catch their normal prey.

While improved management practices have helped mitigate negative human-tiger interactions to a great extent, more needs to be done in this direction. Deadliest Man … All Rights ReservedMigrant labourers falling prey to tiger attacks in Sunderban I used to work in a betel nut garden in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and used to send money back home every month. By We have already decided to provide them with honey box so that they can collect honey easily. While some of these islands host human settlements, others have dense mangrove forests harboring the region's rich wildlife. As a result, the female members who used to work as domestic helps in Kolkata and its adjoining areas are not being able to commute. We, on behalf of the state forest department, are mulling over this issue. As a result, they are easily falling prey to tiger attacks.The devastation caused by the Cyclone Amphan has also forced the marooned residents to depend more on forest products like honey and timber. Plants growing in the loose muddy alluvial soils are subjected to tidal action twice a day. They are specially adapted with features like stilt roots for support, pneumatophores for respiration, viviparous germination, succulent leaves, etc.
Tigers always used to attack from behind.

That will churn out an option for them to sustain during the lockdown phase,” West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee said.The minister said that a meeting has also been convened to take a call on the issue.“We will try to work out something to rehabilitate the villagers, especially the migrant workers who had to hum back home owing to the lockdown and have zero income currently,” he said.The alluvial archipelago called the Sundarbans, formed by 56 riverine islands, has been declared a World Heritage site by the UNESCO for its rich biodiversity and is home to the famous Royal Bengal Tiger.Located in South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas districts, it is a vast area covering 4,262 sq km, including a mangrove cover of 2,125 sq km in India alone, and a larger portion falling in Bangladesh.Considered to be one of the richest but most fragile ecosystems on earth, the Sundarbans delta, formed by the myriad branches of the Ganga, has forest tracts that reach 130-km inland from the coastline.“If we study the region, people from north-eastern side of Sunderbans are usually prone to fish and crab catching activities.
Through decades, innumerable documentaries, films, books, and articles have been dedicated to portraying the Sundarbans tigers as "man-eaters." At least 12 people were killed in different tiger attacks in the Sunderbans in the past three months, of which about six were migrant labourers, official sources said. His friends somehow managed to save themselves, leaving the country boat behind in a narrow creek. It is true that there is no livelihood. Thus, most man-eaters are infirm, old, injured or have missing teeth. How many people are actually killed by the Sundarbans tigers and not by other predators like crocodiles and sharks? After Amphan, saline water entered into the agricultural land and destroyed the cultivation also,” Mondal said.Gopal Mondal, a migrant labourer who came back from Andaman, said: “The forest is our only source of income now. There is a popular saying in the Sunderbans — ‘those who are greedy, become easy victims of tiger attacks’.”Earlier, the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee-led state government locked horns over the issue of a job scheme for migrant labourers — the ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan’.Criticising the Trinamool Congress for allegedly opposing the pro-people policies of the Centre, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said in June that the state could not be made a beneficiary of the ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan’, as it had not provided any data on migrant labourers.To contribute an article to Siasat Daily or enquire about syndication, please write to Copyright © Siasat Daily, 2020. It is often said that “The case was true not just for Mr. Mistry’s village, but, according to accounts, most other villages in proximity to the tiger habitat in the Sundarbans ecoregion.