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While in modern times there are on average fewer than 85 people killed and injured by tigers worldwide each year, India has seen sharp increases in absolute numbers of tiger attacks in recent years, as was the case in 2014 and 2015, as a result of human population growth and the expansion of human settlements into the tiger's natural habitat. [4]
Tiger attacks like Tharu’s were a rare occurrence in 2004. But as the tiger population increases, these attacks are becoming more frequent, and since 2019, there have been at least 34 fatal ...
50 Years of Project Tiger: For the traditional communities living in the world’s largest mangrove forest, hunting, fishing and gathering are essential sources of food and income. But they can ...
A 2007 review by the United States Geological Survey defined human-wildlife conflict in two contexts; firstly, actions by wildlife conflict with human goals i.e. life, livelihood and life-style, and secondly, human activities that threaten the safety and survival of wildlife. However, in both cases outcomes are decided by human responses to the ...
Chinese authorities issued a warning after a viral video showed a farmer narrowly escaping a Siberian tiger attack on Monday in the country’s northernmost Heilongjiang province.. Two men were ...
In February 1985, Hunt was killed by a Bengal tiger in Jim Corbett National Park, Nainital district, Uttarakhand, India, while leading a bird-watching tour there. [1] Later in the year his autobiography, Confessions of a Scilly Birdman, was published. As a result of his death, visitors are now forbidden to walk in the Jim Corbett National Park ...
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First edition (publ. Oxford University Press) Man-Eaters of Kumaon is a 1944 book written by hunter-naturalist Jim Corbett. [1] It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating Bengal tigers [2] and Indian leopards. [3]