In the world’s largest mangrove forest, women whose husbands were killed by Bengal tigers are working to restore their habitat.

New Delhi: The Sundarbans, the world's largest contiguous mangrove forest, has 182 tigers -- 106 in Bangladesh and around 76 in India, according to the first ever modern survey jointly conducted by ...

The government’s decision increases the proportion of the Bangladesh Sundarbans that is off-limits to people from 23 to 52 percent, although pollution from a proposed coal power plant nearby would be ...

Bangladesh remains a major hub for the poaching of endangered tigers despite government claims of a successful crackdown on pirate groups involved in the trade, according to research published Friday.

Bangladesh police Sunday shot dead six alleged tiger poachers in the world's largest mangrove forest as it launched a crackdown following a drastic fall in the number of big cats. Police said the six ...

Four tiger poachers were killed in a mangrove forest in Bangladesh on Wednesday during a shootout with police, officials said. The alleged poachers opened fire at Rapid Action Battalion, the ...

Feared and revered, it’s one of the world’s most iconic creatures: the majestic Bengal tiger. Already threatened by poaching and humans spreading into its shrinking habitats, researchers say that in ...

This is an expanded version of an article that ran on Yale e360 on October 29th, 2013: A Key Mangrove Forest Faces Major Threat from a Coal Plant. Bengal tiger in the Sundarbans mangrove forest. Photo ...

The objective of the Sundarbans Handicraft Bangladesh project is to reduce poverty and expand Sundarban culture and heritage by involving the disadvantaged community in the production and selling of s ...

JHARKHALI, India — Shibani Mistry's husband went crab fishing for extra income four years ago — only to die from a regrettably familiar cause on this West Bengali island: a tiger attack. "We had very ...

Summary of previous deliberations: The Committee when it inscribed “The Sundarbans” of Bangladesh in the World Heritage List (Naples, 1997) encouraged the authorities of Bangladesh and India to ...