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Treatment Centre planned near Sundarbans

KOLKATA: Following the death of a Royal Bengal Tiger in the custody of State Forest Department, the West Bengal government is planning to set up a wildlife treatment and rehabilitation centre near the forest.

State forest officials said this decision was taken on Wednesday at the State secretariat as part of a measure to save the tigers which were increasingly straying out of their natural habitat into villages and habitations close by.

Even as the tiger captured on Monday at a Sundarban village died of unknown reasons on Tuesday, another full-grown tiger which had strayed into another village in the Sundarbans, has now been brought to the Calcutta Zoo for treatment. This tiger made three such forays. The forest officials said 100 additional acres would be acquired to expand the 200 acre animal rehabilitation centre at Jharkhali.

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