When man and climate act together, consequences are sometimes dramatic. In India, on the islands of Sundarbans, near Bengladesh, seven fishermen were killed since the beginning of the year by tigers. The rise of the ocean Indian under the influence of climatic warming and dams on the Ganges nibbled little by little the habitat of the tiger in the region, causing more frequent meetings with the man.

Sundarbans is an archipelago of hundred of marshy islets separated by natural channels, in the hang glider of the Ganges. The presence of the tigers, crocodiles and other snakes killers led the Indian to nickname this region “the belly of Hell”. And however, several hundred persons live there, of peach and harvest of the honey in the forests which wallpaper islets. (1)

Some have already disappeared, gulped down by the rise of the ocean. A quarter of the habitat of the tiger disappeared in forty years. The animal is threatened here as he is him elsewhere. Of 500, the population of the animal would be from 75 to 260, according to sources today. Victim of the poachers — an animal was again killed in October and especially of the disappearance of his hunting grounds and fields of his natural preys, the tiger becomes more aggressive in relation to the fishermen who cross sound territories.

Even worse, the animal begins visiting villages, of night. But he does not any more content himself with pinching some goat. In a report published at the end of September, Taipei Times tells how a villager was devoured at the end of June in Sundarbans, side Bengladesh this time. There would be quarantine dead every year in this region, to which are added about fifteen victims Indian side.

(1) See description that in fact Isabel Millard, author of a documentary on the access to care in this region.