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Tigers Stalk, Storms Rage, but Poverty Forces Indians Deeper Into the Sundarbans 15/01/2021 Men on a boat row past mangrove trees encircling Satjelia island in the Sundarbans, December 15, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis. Satjelia, West Bengal: On a warm November afternoon, Parul Haldar balanced precariously on the bow of a small wooden dinghy, pulling in a long net flecked with fish from the swirling brown river. Just behind her loomed the dense forest of the Sundarbans, where some 10,000 square km of tidal mangroves straddle India’s northeastern coastline and western Ba...

7:34 AM MYT Parul Haldar (R), 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip, her brother Nitai Mandal, 32, and her mother Lakshmi Mandal, 65, row a boat close to the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) forest near the Satjelia island in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. According to the Sundarban Tiger Reserve's director, Tapas Das, five people have been killed by tigers in India's Sundarbans since April. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SATJELIA, India (Reuters) - On a warm November afternoon, Parul Haldar balanced precariously on the bow of a small wooden dinghy, pulli...

Indian Fishermen catch fish on a foggy morning on the Matla river in the Sundarban. Photo: AFP Just behind her loomed the dense forest of the Sundarbans, where some 10,000 square km of tidal mangroves straddle India's northeastern coastline and western Bangladesh and open into the Bay of Bengal. Four years ago, her husband disappeared on a fishing trip deep inside the forest. Two fishermen with him saw his body being dragged into the undergrowth - one of a rising number of humans killed by tigers as they venture into the wild. That Haldar, a single mother of four, is taking such risks is tes...

Local media, which closely follow tiger attacks, have reported up to 21 deaths last year, from 13 both in 2018 and 2019.

On a warm November afternoon, Parul Haldar balanced precariously on the bow of a small wooden dinghy, pulling in a long net flecked with fish from the swirling brown river. Just behind her loomed the dense forest of the Sundarbans, where some 10,000 square km (6,213 sq miles) of tidal mangroves straddle India’s northeastern coastline and western Bangladesh and open into the Bay of Bengal. Four years ago, her husband disappeared on a fishing trip deep inside the forest. Two fishermen with him saw his body being dragged into the undergrowth – one of a rising number of humans killed by tiger...