AR-News: (AU) 500 endangered tigers found

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>From correspondents in Dhaka, Bangladesh
March 11, 2004 
GAME wardens have found 500 endangered royal bengal tigers in a Bangladesh 
mangrove forest while surveying the area, according to preliminary figures 
released today.

Bangladeshi and Indian game warden teams have spent weeks criss-crossing the 
Sunderbans delta that straddles the border of the two countries, searching for 
paw prints, or "pug marks", of the powerful cats. 
The United Nations-funded study aims to determine the size of the tiger 
population in the delta amid poaching and loss of habitat due to human encroachment.





full story:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8933802%255E1702
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