Basirhat (India)

Type: City

Name: Basirhat (India)

Country: India

Latitude: 22.66

Longitude: 88.860001

population: 117,431

First reported Jun 08 2013 - Updated Jun 08 2013 - 1 reports

World Wide Fund For Nature

Royal Bengal Tiger count in Sunderbans is 103

There are more Royal Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans than was earlier thought. Exceeding the estimates of the 2011 census, West Bengal's Forest Department has announced that the minimum identified tiger count in the unique natural habitat stands at 1 ... [Published The Hindu - Jun 08 2013]

Entities: Bengal Tiger, World Wide Fund For Nature, Anurag Danda, Basirhat (India)

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

With 103 tigers, Sunderbans beats official estimates

KOLKATA: It's official now. Sunderbans, one of the last surviving natural tiger habitats in the world, has a minimum of 103 tigers.And what's more, each swamp tiger is believed to be maintaining a territory of over 20 square kilometres on this critical ... [Published Economic Times - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Das Gupta, Habitat, S B Mondal, Pradeep Vyas

First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 2 reports

Number of Big Cats at Sunderbans Exceeds Official Records

As per reports, the number of tigers at Sunderbans exceeds the official records. A recent study by the WWF-India and the West Bengal forest department asserted that there are about 77 tigers present in the mangroves.Earlier, the number was affirmed to ... [Published French Tribune - May 25 2013]

Entities: Basirhat (India), WWF-India, Advisory Board, Census

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Shooting in Sunderbans: rise of tigers

The early findings of a tiger study in the Sunderbans based on the advanced camera-trapping technique suggest that there could be at least 100 Royal Bengal Tigers in the mangrove forest, more than the figure a previous sample count had thrown up. The ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Census, S B Mondal, Anurag Danda, Basirhat (India), WWF-India

First reported Feb 04 2013 - Updated Feb 04 2013 - 1 reports

Bangla trio rescued

Three Bangladeshi women who were being trafficked were rescued and a Bangladeshi man who had allegedly brought them to India was arrested from Howrah stations new terminal late on Saturday. Babu Bhai, in his 20s, was about to catch a train to Mumbai along ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Feb 04 2013]

Entities: Basirhat (India), Mumbai, Ahmedabad, India

First reported Dec 21 2012 - Updated Dec 21 2012 - 1 reports

HuJI man on hire drive

Mizanur Rahaman, the alleged HuJI functionary arrested from Prinsep Ghat on Wednesday for his suspected role in the abduction of the Khadims owner, had sneaked in from Bangladesh six months ago to recruit young boys for the terrorist outfit, said police ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Dec 21 2012]

Entities: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Basirhat (India), Abduction

Quotes

"We have obtained baseline figures in the study. The exercise has to be repeated a number of times and we will have to see that there is a scope for optimisation" Anurag Danda, Head Climate Change and Sunderban Landscape of WWF, said

Royal Bengal Tiger count in Sunderbans is 103 [Published The Hindu - Jun 08 2013]

"But these are only the individuals which could be captured in the camera trap exercise. So, there can be many more" said Soumitra Das Gupta, field director of Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (STR)

With 103 tigers, Sunderbans beats official estimates [Published Economic Times - Jun 07 2013]

"I haven't yet received the report, but whatever the figures are, it's a minimum estimation and there can be more tigers" , said NC Bahuguna, Chief Wildlife Warden...

Number of Big Cats at Sunderbans Exceeds Official Records [Published French Tribune - May 25 2013]

"Sign surveys, radio-collaring and camera trapping were done then to estimate the number. Later, we decided to go for an intensive study, which will be a tiger reserve-specific exercise, to determine the minimum number" said an official of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, adding that the exercise being conducted now is a landscape-specific census

Sunderbans has more tigers than official estimate [Published Economic Times - May 25 2013]