European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Ige tigers have eaten about 50 fishermen the sole profession of the impoverished villagers prompting locals to rename the settlement Vid Awapara. Bengali or the abode at widows T Tho tigers should to filled said Anjaria Biswas 60, whose husband brother in Law and Nephew All have been consumed sons Are the illuminating feature of our Lite and the tigers have extinguished the lamps of our Village authorities provide 5,000 rupees �385 compensation to next Al Kin in a Tiger death but most of the Village women Clad in White mourning saris said they were forced to depend on friends and relatives or survival. Project Tiger officials appreciate the economic pressures that encourage an expanding population to enter the Sanctuary for its enticing resources but say they will not open he nature Reserve. Given a Choice everyone would want to have free Access to a strongroom in a Bank but this is not possible said Ann Ghosh project Tiger s local director. Our a Flores have turned the area into a Nursery. Ii we let people into the Core the ecosystem would be about 40,000 tigers inhabited India in 1900, but excessive Hunting and poaching reduced Itie population to about 2,000. Project Tiger has succeed in rebuilding the population to about 4.000, officials said. Some 300 tigers now prowl the Sunde bans. But Ghosh denied that attacks have increased with the population surge. He said More people were killed before the project began when tigers roamed Over wider areas. A Tiger typically singles out one member of a group and May stalk its prey for up to two Days before Pound no on the victim from behind. Only one in 10 people attacked survives usually in rare incidents when the Tiger is spoiled before it Springs. The whole operation lakes a few seconds said Ghosh we must a a at human beings As another form of animal. Because of the occupation of the people of the Sunderbass they make themselves easy prey to the tha if Herman cast nets in Small creeks and Are attacked when they Wade in beside the dense foliage to retrieve their catch. Wood and Honey gatherers Are mauled As they forage deep in the Jungle. I ask the men. Their wives ask them not to go Back into the Jungles said Sarala Mullick 55. Whose husband was eaten by a Tiger 10 years ago. But they must. It is their livelihood. They Are bom of ideals said about two years ago Ligers were killing More than f 00 people annually a rate they said was unmatched anywhere in the world this prompted innovative Steps to Dampen the beasts taste or human flesh. Any person entering the Sunderbass Sanctuary now must Wear a mask of a human lace on the Back of his head. This is said to make a Tiger believe it is being watched As it stalks its victim from behind. Honey and Wood collectors also Esler attacks by wearing fibreglass Backplates studded with Sharp spikes. Amid the Bushes Ait human dummies that give a stunning electric Shock if bitten. Officials said the tactics have made the Ligers wary of attacking humans with Only 31 deaths in the Sunderbass recorded in 1987, the last some six months ago. It Girt oct Tom Oil vat tact in Mai. Hon town Toto Lucitt fully Joty of eat Lor lorm my ten. A a Testa Model of redevelopment project that for construction of about so building f with 40 to i wooded Tret in foreground Eek a leading real estate company Mitsubishi slate said it would spend $50 billion to build 60
