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Crocodiles Scare Tiger Poachers In India
Topic Started: Jul 1 2007, 11:43 PM (16 Views)
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Crocodiles Scare Tiger Poachers in India
By Associated Press, DILIP GANGULY

CALCUTTA, India

Poachers seeking to bag a Royal Bengal tiger in the Sunderbans reserve are encountering a unique new security measure to keep them away: hundreds of crocodiles that have been released in the mangrove forest.

Originally brought into the reserve in the late 1990s for breeding, the crocodiles are having the unintended beneficial effect of scaring away poachers from the forest — home to the largest wild population of Royal Bengal tigers.

''With tigers on land and the crocodile in water, the fear factor does work,'' divisional Forest Officer Rathin Banerjee said Tuesday.

During winter months, the crocs often come out of the cold water and lie in the jungle path of the poachers.

http://www.happynews.com/news/6262007/croc...chers-india.htm
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