Research overview: salinity, climate change, and tiger straying in the Sundarbans

This overview examines how environmental stressors, rising salinity, sea-level rise, cyclones, and freshwater scarcity, may influence tiger behaviour and human-tiger conflict in the Sundarbans. It synthesises arguments that habitat degradation and shrinking prey push tigers toward village edges, that cyclonic events displace animals, and that climate change threatens to submerge tiger habitat and intensify competition for space. The literature connects these macro-drivers to localised straying incidents and attacks, and considers adaptation and conflict-resilience planning. The survey situates Sundarbans conflict within a changing climate, framing it as a frontline case of how environmental change can reshape predator-human interactions in a vulnerable delta.