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Forest officials suspended after smuggled tiger cubs from Bangladesh’s Sundarbans forest recovered
Bangladesh said on Monday that nine forest officials had been suspended for “gross negligence” after three Bengal tiger cubs were found in a house in Dhaka where they were being kept by smugglers. Bangladesh’s elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) rescued the two-month-old cubs in June after a tip-off that the…
India approves four new tiger sanctuaries
India has approved four new tiger sanctuaries and a “tiger corridor” in the latest of a series of measures designed to stem the decline of the threatened species. Prithviraj Chavan, chief minister of the western state of Maharashtra, announced the steps that will add more than 500 square kilometres (200…
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