(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, APR 7 - "The Bengal tigers that live in the Sundarbans nature reserve are safe and do not run the risk of contracting Covid-19": said PranavChanchani, coordinator of the WWF tigris protection program . The health alarm of the last 88 specimens of felines, among the most exposed species in the world at risk of extinction, was triggered in India after the news of a tiger positive to the virus in the New York zoo.
The WWF exponent explained that tigers are practically unapproachable mainly because of the geographical conformation of the reserve, which, within the Ganges delta, constitutes the largest mangrove forest in the world.
Ravi Kant Sinha, head of the Department of Forestry of the State of West Bengal, told the Ptidi news agency that he had already taken all the measures to intensify the control by the guards, to oversee all the channels and access routes to the heart of the reserve.
Wwf: Bengal tigers not at risk Covid
2020-04-07T14:24:53.467Z
"Bengal tigers living in the Sundarbans nature reserve are safe and do not run the risk of contracting Covid-19," said Pranav Chanchani, coordinator of the WWF India tiger protection program. (HANDLE)