After the trauma of losing their spouse and breadwinner to the Sundarbans’ great predator, women are cast out by their superstitious communities. But they are coming together to rebuild their lives
A villager on Bangladesh’s Shakbaria River. Koyra, in Khulna district, borders the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and home to more than 100 Bengal tigers. Widows are supposed to get compensation after tiger attacks but the money is hard to claim.A villager on Bangladesh’s Shakbaria River. Koyra, in Khulna district, borders the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and home to more than 100 Bengal tigers.
But it is not only tigers that face an existential threat. More than 3.5 million people live on the edge of the Sundarbans, eking out an existence by fishing, collecting honey or wood, and subsistence farming. More thanA home in the village of Koyra, by the Sundarbans, where climate change and rising sea levels have made an already precarious life much even harder.
“I remember receiving the phone call,” she says. “Though tiger attacks are common in this area, nothing prepared me for what would come next.”Shuna Banu by the river that runs past her home in Koyra. Her husband, Aziz Murad, was killed by a tiger four years ago.The attack in 2020 did not just leave Banu without a husband; it turned her into an outcast overnight.
A few doors away lives Reshma Khatun, 38, whose husband was killed in a tiger attack four years ago. Abdul Gazi had been collecting honey from the Sundarbans for more than a decade. One evening, as he was getting ready to cook at a camp in the forest, a tiger pounced on him.of 300,000 taka but in reality it is difficult to make a claim and the amount is not sufficient for families who have lost their sole breadwinner. Women widowed before the policy came into effect in 2011 are also ineligible.
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