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Bengal tiger

 Bengal tiger

 

In Bangladesh, tigers are now relegated to the forests of the Sundarbans and the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The Chittagong forest is contiguous with tiger habitat in India and Myanmar, but the tiger population is of unknown status
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As of 2004, population estimates in Bangladesh ranged from 200 to 419 individuals, most of them in the Sundarbans.This region is the only mangrove habitat in this bioregion, where tigers survive, swimming between islands in the delta to hunt prey. Bangladesh's Forest Department is raising mangrove plantations supplying forage for spotted deer. Since 2001, afforestation has continued on a small scale in the Sundarbans. From October 2005 to January 2007, the first camera trap survey was conducted across six sites in the Bangladesh Sundarbans to estimate tiger population density. The average of these six sites provided an estimate of 3.7 tigers per 100 km2 (39 sq mi). Since the Bangladesh Sundarbans is an area of 5,770 km2 (2,230 sq mi), it was inferred that the total tiger population comprised approximately 200 individuals. Home ranges of adult female tigers were recorded comprising between 12 and 14 km2 (4.6 and 5.4 sq mi), which would indicate an approximate carrying capacity of 150 adult females. The small home range of adult female tigers and consequent high density of tigers in this habitat type relative to other areas may be related to both the high density of prey and the small size of the Sundarban tigers.


Since 2007, tiger monitoring surveys have been carried out every year by WildTeam in the Bangladesh Sundarbans to monitor changes in the Bangladesh tiger population and assess the effectiveness of conservation actions. This survey measures changes in the frequency of tiger track sets along the sides of tidal waterways as an index of relative tiger abundance across the Sundarbans landscape. By 2009, the tiger population in the Bangladesh Sundarbans was estimated as 100–150 adult females or 335–500 tigers overall. Female home ranges, recorded using Global Positioning System collars, were some of the smallest recorded for tigers, indicating that the Bangladesh Sundarbans could have one of the highest densities and largest populations of tigers anywhere in the world. They are isolated from the next tiger population by a distance of up to 300 km (190 mi). Information is lacking on many aspects of Sundarbans tiger ecology, including relative abundance, population status, spatial dynamics, habitat selection, life history characteristics, taxonomy, genetics, and disease. There is also no monitoring program in place to track changes in the tiger population over time, and therefore no way of measuring the response of the population to conservation activities or threats. Most studies have focused on the tiger-human conflict in the area, but two studies in the Sundarbans East Wildlife sanctuary documented habitat-use patterns of tigers, and abundances of tiger prey, and another study investigated tiger parasite load. Some major threats to tigers have been identified. The tigers living in the Sundarbans are threatened by habitat destruction, prey depletion, highly aggressive and rampant intraspecific competition, tiger-human conflict, and direct tiger loss.

 

 

Bengal tiger

বাংলাদেশে, বাঘ এখন সুন্দরবন এবং পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রামের বনে ছেড়ে দেওয়া হয়েছে। চট্টগ্রাম বন ভারত ও মায়ানমারের বাঘের আবাসস্থলের সাথে সংলগ্ন, কিন্তু বাঘের সংখ্যা অজানা।  2004 সালের হিসাবে, বাংলাদেশে জনসংখ্যার অনুমান 200 থেকে 419 জন ব্যক্তির মধ্যে ছিল, যাদের বেশিরভাগই সুন্দরবনে। এই অঞ্চলটি এই জীবজগতের একমাত্র ম্যানগ্রোভ আবাসস্থল, যেখানে বাঘ বেঁচে থাকে, শিকার শিকারের জন্য বদ্বীপের দ্বীপগুলির মধ্যে সাঁতার কাটে। বাংলাদেশের বন বিভাগ দাগযুক্ত হরিণের জন্য চারণ সরবরাহের জন্য ম্যানগ্রোভ বাগান গড়ে তুলছে। 2001 সাল থেকে সুন্দরবনে স্বল্প পরিসরে বনায়ন অব্যাহত রয়েছে। অক্টোবর 2005 থেকে জানুয়ারী 2007 পর্যন্ত, বাঘের জনসংখ্যার ঘনত্ব অনুমান করার জন্য বাংলাদেশের সুন্দরবনের ছয়টি সাইটে প্রথম ক্যামেরা ট্র্যাপ জরিপ চালানো হয়েছিল। এই ছয়টি সাইটের গড় প্রতি 100 কিমি2 (39 বর্গ মাইল) 3.7টি বাঘের অনুমান প্রদান করেছে। যেহেতু বাংলাদেশ সুন্দরবনের আয়তন ৫,৭৭০ ​​কিমি ২ (২,২৩০ বর্গ মাইল), তাই অনুমান করা হয়েছে যে মোট বাঘের জনসংখ্যা প্রায় ২০০ জন।


প্রাপ্তবয়স্ক মহিলা বাঘের হোম রেঞ্জ রেকর্ড করা হয়েছে 12 থেকে 14 কিমি2 (4.6 এবং 5.4 বর্গ মাইল), যা 150 প্রাপ্তবয়স্ক মহিলার আনুমানিক বহন ক্ষমতা নির্দেশ করবে। প্রাপ্তবয়স্ক স্ত্রী বাঘের ছোট বাড়ির পরিসর এবং অন্যান্য অঞ্চলের তুলনায় এই আবাসের ধরণে বাঘের উচ্চ ঘনত্ব, শিকারের উচ্চ ঘনত্ব এবং সুন্দরবনের বাঘের ছোট আকার উভয়ের সাথে সম্পর্কিত হতে পারে। 

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