Ananda Banerjee

Sundari trees, after which the mangrove forest is named, are on the brink of extinction in West Bengal due to excessive logging in the past for its high value wood and now with seawater rise.

Panna’s success story is now a conservation case study in other tiger range countries where efforts are ongoing to increase tiger numbers.

The asymptomatic nature of COVID-19 transmission exposes millions of animals in captivity to human contact. And given the fact that the number of captive tigers in the US alone is between 5000 and 10,000 -- more than the number of tigers found in the wild -- the captive animals face a greater risk.