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The Bengal tiger or Royal Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. It ranks among the biggest wild cats alive today. It is estimated to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene for about 12,000 to 16,500 years.
The Sunderban Tiger Reserve is located in the South 24 Parganas district of the Indian state of West Bengal, and has a total geographical area of 2585 km 2, with 1437.4 km 2 consisting of populated areas and forest covering the remaining 1474 km 2. The Sunderban landscape is contiguous with the mangrove habitat in Bangladesh.
The Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve covers an area of 9,630 square kilometers (3,720 sq mi) in the South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas district districts of south-eastern West Bengal, as well as over 100 small and large islands. It extends from Haroa and Hasnabad blocks of North 24 Parganas district in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the ...
The Sundarban National Park is a National Park, Tiger Reserve, and a Biosphere Reserve in West Bengal, India. It is part of the Sundarbans on the Ganges Delta, and adjacent to the Sundarbans Reserve Forest in Bangladesh. The delta is densely covered by mangrove forests, and is one of the largest reserves for the Bengal tiger.
The Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris [NCBI:txid74535]) [7] is the species found all across the country except Thar desert region, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Kutch region. [8] These can attain the largest body size among all the Felidae, [6]: 29 and therefore are called Royal Bengal Tigers.
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Bengal tiger formerly P. t. tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) [2] This population inhabits the Indian subcontinent. [17] The Bengal tiger has shorter fur than tigers further north, [8] with a light tawny to orange-red colouration, [8] [18] and relatively long and narrow nostrils. [19] † Caspian tiger formerly P. t. virgata (Illiger, 1815) [20]
Project Tiger is headed by an additional director general (ADG) based at New Delhi with regional offices at Bangalore, Guwahati and Nagpur. [1] The wildlife habitats that fall under Project Tiger are categorized into different conservation units: Shivalik-Terai, North East, Sunderbans, Western ghats, Eastern ghats, Central India and Sariska. [12]