The happiness of the Sundarbans tigers in the epidemic

A Tiger of Sundarbans

Due to the epidemic, people have not been able to walk in the Sundarbans for the last five months. They have returned a favorable environment for wildlife breeding.

As a result, the officials of the forest department are hoping for the breeding of the endangered national animal of Bangladesh.
For the past five months, there have been no reports of tigers being killed by poachers due to the epidemic. Traffickers are less active as international routes and borders are closed.
In addition, the tiger-human conflict has decreased in recent times because of the government's initiative. After 2013, only in 2017, tigers died in the locality.
It is known that in the last two decades, 36 tigers have died in the Sundarbans at the hands of poachers, in local beatings and due to illness and old age. Of these, 22 are in the eastern part of the Sundarbans and 18 in the west.

The government has taken initiative so that tigers can roam freely in the forest. Alternative employment of people dependent on the Sundarbans has been arranged.
So far, about 75,000 fishermen, bawalis and mouyals have been assisted in various ways including financial assistance. It is learned that more new projects are being undertaken to reduce the pressure on Sundaban in future.

The Forest Department recovered an 11-foot-long tiger skin from the house of Belayet Hossain Talukder of Charduani Kanthaltala village in Barguna district on August 25, 2004.

Another tiger skin was recovered from Nuruzzaman Sheikh's house in Sonatala village of Sharankhola upazila on November 2, 2006.

Three tiger skins, skulls and 139 pieces of bones were found in an abandoned house in Paschim Khada village of the same upazila on February 16, 2011.

The latest was on January 14, 2015 at a bus stand of Morelganj upazila in Bagerhat. The forest department recovered a tiger skin, 25 bones and 26 teeth from the east side of Ibrahim Sheikh's motorcycle garage.

The tiger project has already had a positive impact. Where there were 108 tigers in 2014, there have been 114 in 2019.

Positive results have come in the efforts of all government-private-community based. If this trend continues, the next two years will have a positive impact on the survey, the number of tigers is said to increase.
This time Tiger Day will be celebrated through a special online program in the crisis of Kovid-19. The Tiger Day program will involve the people of the Sundarbans area through a program centrally in Dhaka.