It was a beautiful sunny day as the Indian Forest Service (IFS) transported a Bengal tiger for release into the wild. The IFS planned to release the tiger in the Sundarbans region in West Bengal, ...

Sundarbans literally means "beautiful forest," but as the novelist Amitav Ghosh writes, "There is no prettiness here to invite the stranger in." The largest mangrove forest in the world — home to ...

“Sundarban tigers do not have the inherent fear of humans [that others do] as they may never have experienced humans as hunters in this habitat.” Sardar admits to entering the protected area of the ...

KOLKATA: Camera traps - installed in the Indian Sundarbans between last Nov and this Jan during the routine annual exercise to monitor tiger population on the delta - have revealed presence of a pair ...

In a remote corner of eastern India, far in the jungle and hours by boat from any village, there is a camp with a brightly colored shrine to a forest goddess. Behind a tall fence, a statue of Bonbibi ...

New Delhi: The National Board for Wildlife this week approved the West Bengal government’s proposal to expand the area of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve, senior officials familiar with the matter told ...