Monday, October 20, 2008

"Global warming leads India tigers to village attacks"

Global warming leads India tigers to village attacks - Yahoo! News
"In the past six months, seven fishermen were killed in an area called Netidhopani," Pranabes Sanyal of the World Conservation Union said.
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Villager Ashutosh Dhali became a local celebrity after television cameras captured him being attacked in February.

"We were trying to catch the tiger perched on a tree of our village with tranquiliser shots," said the 47-year-old villager.

"But it flung on me after falling on a net and bit my loins."

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