AIMS Human-tiger conflict (HTC) is a serious public health issue in Sundarban Reserve Forest, India. HTC is a continued concern for the significant mortality and morbidity of both human and tiger population. This is the first comprehensive report on Sundarban tiger-human conflicts and its impact on widows whose husbands were killed by tigers. The study attempts to explore the situation analysis...

This study represents distribution of Arsenic in two different estuaries, one is Himalayan source and another is non-Himalayan source. Arsenic concentration in river water, pore water and ground water was found to be significantly higher in the Mahanadi estuary could be due to fringing mangrove than that of Hooghly-Saptamukhi estuary with thick mangrove ecosystem. Spatial variation of Arsenic i...

INTRODUCTION Corneal ulcers are the second most-common cause of preventable blindness after cataract in tropical developing countries. Fungal corneal ulcers constitute 30 to 62 % of the total microbial culture-positive corneal ulcers. OBJECTIVE To study the epidemiological characteristics, risk factors and laboratory diagnosis of fungal corneal ulcer in the Sundarban Region, West Bengal, east...

AIMS This study attempts to examine the extent and impact of human-animal conflicts visa-vis psychosocial stressors and mental health of affected people in two villages adjacent to Sundarban Reserve Forest (SRF) in the Gosaba Block, West Bengal, India. METHODS Door to door household survey for incidents of human-animal conflicts, Focus Group Discussions, In-depth Interviews, Case studies, Com...

Two new species of biting midges, Culicoides cornatus sp. nov. and pileus are described based on adults. The compared to their congeners with close similarity. All specimens were collected from the Indian Sundarban Mangrove Forests, few mounted in glass slides prepared for SEM study. Total 78 under genus Latreille including two ones (6 ornatus group) India. An adult key group Oriental Region is...

This paper documents the concentration of total arsenic and individual arsenic species in four soft-bottom benthic polychaetes (Perenereis cultifera, Ganganereis sootai, Lumbrinereis notocirrata and Dendronereis arborifera) along with host sediments from Sundarban mangrove wetland, India. An additional six sites were considered exclusively for surface sediments for this purpose. Polychaetes wer...