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TIGER, TIGER BURNING BRIGHT: Local theatre shows how deeply the tiger is embedded in local psyche.

TIGER, TIGER BURNING BRIGHT: Local theatre shows how deeply the tiger is embedded in local psyche.

Tigers escape Sunderbans due to rising sea levels

Across the world climate change has dominated political debates. But what will it entail for the wildlife species such as the tiger? Thanks to climate change, to escape rising sea levels, experts believe that the tigers are migrating northwards in large numbers. And with more tigers migrating into human territory, whether people’s respect for the tiger continue, remains to be seen.

SINKING ISLAND: Anjuman and Sheikh Jiyan take up fishing as rising sea drowned their farmland.

Global warming: Sunderbans start sinking

Rising water levels have eroded, by some accounts, 40-50 pc of the landmass on the Ghoramara island in Sundarbans.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/global-warming-sunderbans-start-sinking/38006-3.html

AT RISK: Global warming in Sunderbans is threatening the survival of the endangered tigers, say experts.

Global warming hits Sunderbans

Global warming is causing the steady shrinking of the mangroves of Sunderbans, say wildlife experts.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/global-warming-hits-sunderbans/34825-11.html

BOLLYWOOD CALLING: A forest official is seen returning to his base as the sun sets at Sunderbans.

Bollywood reaches the Sunderbans

A love story set in a tiger reserve is being made into a film, in a rare celluloid adaptation of Indian novel.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/bollywood-reaches-the-sunderbans/20734-8.html

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