Today is World Tiger Day. Tiger Day is being celebrated in the country this year with the motto ‘Let’s raise tigers, let’s protect the Sundarbans’. This creature is gradually becoming extinct from all over the world. Then Bangladesh gave good news.
According to date, in the last 3 years, the number of tigers in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh has increased from 106 to 114. The Royal Bengal Tiger is the national animal of the country. There are 13 countries in the world where the tigers have survived.
According to the latest tiger survey on May 22 last year, there are 114 tigers in the Sundarbans. The Forest Department confirmed this information through a camera tracking survey in the Sundarbans. But according to the density of the Sundarbans, there should be at least 200 tigers.
Human activities such as poaching, lack of food and various natural calamities, including navigation in the river within the Sundarbans and construction of industrial infrastructure along the forest have become major threats to the tiger’s existence.
The area of the Bangladesh part of the World Heritage Site Sundarbans is 6,017 sq km.
Since 2001, around 53 tigers have died. Of these, 15 died naturally. Locals have beaten 14 tigers to death, one in the 2007 Super Cyclone Sidr and the other 25 killed by poachers. Trafficking of tiger limbs, skin, bones, teeth and nails is a daily occurrence.
However, the hopeful news is that the killing of tigers in the Sundarbans has come down due to the surrender of one bandit after another.