CALCUTTA: Wildlife workers in eastern India have begun counting endangered Royal Bengal tigers in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest straddling the Indian-Bangladesh border.
The traditional pugmark (paw imprint) counting method is being used to count the big cats in the marshy islands of the forest, Jogesh Burman, forest minister in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal said yesterday.
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