Bring a dog and carry a big stick. That’s Monirul Khan’s advice to people venturing into the Sunderbans mangrove forest, one of the tiger’s last strongholds, in search of food. Dogs provide early warning of a tiger’s approach, and if a man-eater pounces, a big stick… well, it’s better than nothing.
Khan, of Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is working to minimise tiger-human conflict in the Sunderbans. “The use of pet dogs is very effective in reducing tiger attacks,” he says.
In a report compiled for the Save the Tiger Fund and published this week, he estimates tiger numbers in…
