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Bangladesh mangrove forest has at least 500 tigers: minister DHAKA, Thursday (AFP) Game wardens have found 500 endangered Royal Bengal Tigers in a Bangladesh mangrove forest after carrying out a similar survey in neighbouring India, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday. No figures were available for the number of tigers in the Indian part of the forest where the UN-funded survey was carried out earlier. Bangladeshi and Indian game warden teams have spent weeks criss-crossing the Sunderbans delta that straddles the border of the two countries, searching for paw prints, or "pug marks," of the powerful cats. The study aims to determine the size of the tiger population in the delta amid poaching and loss of habitat due to human encroachment. |
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