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A tigress
released with animal tracking chip in Sundarbans Sundarbans
(WB): Wildlife authorities released a tigress with animal tracking chip to
keep an eye on the behaviour of the big cat in Sundarbans forests in West Bengal.
The seven-year old tigress, which had entered Satjelia village under Gosaba block
of the Sundarbans delta a few days ago, was trapped on July 2. The sensitive microchip,
fixed on an ear of tigress, will be monitored remotely and provide information
about the movement of the tigress. The chip system is being used for the first
time in West Bengal. India has half the world's surviving tigers, but conservationists
say the country is losing the battle to save the big cats. There were about 40,000
tigers in India a century ago, but decades of poaching had cut their number to
about 3,700, according to a count conducted in 2001 and 2002. -July
6, 2009 Go
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