... Ghosh questions this human cost of wildlife preservation when he makes Kanai ask Piya, the American marine biologist, who exclaims horror at the killing the tiger: "Isn't that a horror too that we can feel the suffering of an animal but not of human beings?." The novelist uses this ... and survivalists to a memorable climax. Hours before she was raped and killed by the criminals and gangsters deployed by the people's government of West Bengal to unsettle and dislodge the settlers from Morichjhapi island in which they had made this home because they felt less unwanted, less of a burden t...

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... of the criteria needed to select habitat for protection, a proposal on what lands should be incorporated into a core area, recommendations for zoning lands for tiger conservation, and a proposal on how planning should proceed in the future. This proposal is split into five sections: 1) an introduction; 2) a ... quality habitat, and may be overly optimistic for much of tiger habitat. In addition to this estimate of home range size, our available information suggests that, as has been noted by Russian biologists here, and for Bengal tigers in Nepal, adult female tigers are territorial. Th...

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