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The Sundarban Tiger

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(04-15-2022, 07:20 PM)LonePredator Wrote: @GuateGojira Sorry to dig up an old post but this is actually not true, government data never really gave such ridiculous numbers.

The official Tiger Census of 2010 gave a number of 70 Tigers in the Sundarbans, 2014, it was 76, 2018 it was 88.

I think those numbers are accurate though you may be the better person to make that judgement but these are the actual numbers given by the government from the Tiger census.

Here is a table below which represents the government census data from all the previous Tiger census conducted.


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In that post of 2015 I was not talking about the census of 2010, but about all the previous estimations showed by the Goverment (because the do) and popularized by the press. And I have the books were Dr Karanth state this.

Pugmark census are rubish, the myth that Sundarbans tiger population is among the largest is just that, a myth. And all this was popularized by the Government, specially in the last days of Project Tiger and before the dissaster of Sariska and Panna.
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( This post was last modified: 04-15-2022, 09:45 PM by Ashutosh )

@GuateGojira, to be fair those numbers are only for the Indian Sunderbans which accounts for about 40% of the delta. Current estimates put the number close to 95 on the Indian side.

The Bangladeshi side reports about 120 individuals even though throughout the 2000s they claimed to house over 400 individuals vastly inflating their numbers. But, there is also a sex ratio issue on the Bangladeshi side with much lower males. Not to mention, the Bangladeshi Sundarbans  has a lot more habitable area and this means it has more scope for population growth (but the prey base is low here as compared to the Indian side).

Historically speaking, Sundarbans was spread out over 100,000 sq.km able to house over 5000 tigers (and rhinos). Today, the area is just 10% of its historical range.
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( This post was last modified: 04-15-2022, 10:12 PM by GuateGojira )

(04-15-2022, 09:31 PM)Ashutosh Wrote: @GuateGojira, to be fair those numbers are only for the Indian Sunderbans which accounts for about 40% of the delta. Current estimates put the number close to 95 on the Indian side.

The Bangladeshi side reports about 120 individuals even though throughout the 2000s they claimed to house over 400 individuals vastly inflating their numbers. But, there is also a sex ratio issue on the Bangladeshi side with much lower males. Not to mention, the Bangladeshi Sundarbans  has a lot more habitable area and this means it has more scope for population growth (but the prey base is low here as compared to the Indian side).

Historically speaking, Sundarbans was spread out over 100,000 sq.km able to house over 5000 tigers (and rhinos). Today, the area is just 10% of its historical range.

Yes, I was aware that Bangladesh had a bigger area to house tigers, but 400 animals do not seems likelly. Sadly, as you mention, prey base is low and that do affect the tiger population.

Sundarbans was probably a great habitat in the past, now is just a shadow of what it was.
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Some fantastic images.

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Very impressive Sundarban Male, picture from 2016
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sundarban tigress:
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Sunderbans... Though smaller than their mainland counterparts via adaptation, they are just as firey:




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Images of wild Sundarbans tigers in the Bangladesh part of Sundarbans (world's largest mangrove forest) from Dr Monirul H. Khan's সুন্দরবনে বাঘের সন্ধানে (In pursuit of tigers in Sundarbans). Dr Monirul Khan is also the author of "Tigers in the Mangroves" and also he did the first pHD on the Sundarbans tiger. The book is only available in Bangla and not available in any other language (atleast not to my knowledge).


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Two incredible images of the Sundarbans tiger. Credits to Dr. Monirul H. Khan & Sayam U. Chowdhury (who is also an important conservation biologist doing research on the fauna of Bangladesh)


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