How can solar lights save tigers in the Sundarbans biosphere reserve?
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The use of a renewable non-polluting and viable source of energy that at one go helps tackle human-animal conflict and also lights up the lives of communities. This is the goals of the new, innovative method being employed to prevent tigers from entering Sunderbans’ village – solar lights.
People in the Sundarbans are continually exposed to hazards that have become everyday and usual to them – snake-bites and tiger attacks are not uncommon threats for people inhabiting these secluded mangroves. With Sundarban tigers capable of swimming great distances and at speeds of around 16km/hr, living on an island is no protection from a tiger. Photo Gallery 12 incidents per year!
WWF-India has been setting up solar street lights in villages along the forest edge, which seems to discourage tigers and other wildlife from straying into these areas. Not a single tiger straying incidence has been reported from locations where solar lights have been installed!
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