Research overview: climate pressures and human-tiger conflict in the Sundarbans

The Sundarbans support both tigers and dense human populations dependent on the forest for fishing, honey collection, and wood, a coexistence stressed by climate change. This overview surveys how habitat loss, salinity-driven freshwater scarcity, and storm damage can intensify human-tiger encounters as both species concentrate in shrinking usable areas. It reviews conflict-mitigation efforts, fencing, response teams, alternative livelihoods, against a backdrop of rising environmental stress. The synthesis frames the Sundarbans as a coupled social-ecological system where climate impacts on habitat translate into human safety and livelihood challenges, explaining why conservation here blends ecology with poverty, disaster resilience, and community engagement rather than habitat protection alone.