A woman sells fish at a market on the island of Gosaba in the Sundarbans, India, November 22, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Namita Mondal, 32, whose husband died due to a tiger attack, gestures as she calls out to a family member from her home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
People go fishing on a river near the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
A Bonobibi shrine, a goddess who is worshipped by the local people and fisher folks before entering the forest, stands on the island of Gosaba in the Sundarbans, India, November 22, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Parul Haldar, 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, and her daughter Papri Haldar, 11, sit together outside their home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees ($27) Haldar makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. "No matter how hard it is, I want to educate her," said Haldar. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
A boat rows past a broken embankment on the island of Kumirmari in the Sundarbans, India, November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Papri Haldar, 11, whose father died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, holds flowers in her hands on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees that Papri's mother Parul makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Trousers belonging to Manoj Mondal, that were recovered after Mondal was attacked by a tiger, lie on the floor of his home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
A boat ferrying people across the islands passes a window near the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
A woman fishes along the banks of a river near the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Subhadra haldar, 78, whose husband died due to a tiger attack, poses for a picture outside her home on the island of Gosaba in the Sundarbans, India, December 17, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
A photograph of Manoj Mondol, Namita Mondal's husband who died due to a tiger attack, sits on a shelf in Mondol's home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 21, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Parul Haldar, 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, poses for a photograph as she rows her boat past small mangrove trees encircling the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 21, 2020. "If I don't go to the jungle, I won't have enough food to eat," said Haldar who travels deeper into the forests twice a month to catch crabs, rowing six hours on a rickety boat along with her mother and staying in the undergrowth for several days. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
People cut branches off a dried mangrove tree encircling the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
A woman washes utensils in a pond outside her home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 15, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Sarodini Mondal, 52, whose husband died due to a tiger attack, poses for a photograph outside her home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 15, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Parul Haldar, 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, combs her 11-year-old daughter Papri Haldar's hair at their home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees ($27) Haldar makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. "No matter how hard it is, I want to educate her," said Haldar. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Parul Haldar, 39, whose husband died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, and her daughter Papri Haldar, 11, travel across Satjelia island on a boat in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees ($27) Haldar makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. "No matter how hard it is, I want to educate her," said Haldar. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
A woman and a boy harvest rice using a thresher machine on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 15, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Ashtami Mondal, 30, whose 31-year-old husband Haripada, died in a tiger attack when he went fishing on the rivers encircling Kumirmari during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), takes her cow to graze, by her home on the island of Kumirmari in the Sundarbans, India, November 19, 2020. Haripada, the sole breadwinner, returned home from a construction job in mid-March, his family said, days before India's government announced the nationwide lockdown. "He said he would go nearby to fish and make 50-100 rupees to help with household expenses," Ashtami said. He left home before dawn, rowed into the forests and was killed. "If there was no lockdown or no coronavirus, he would have left here to work." REUTERS/Anushree FadnavisShow moreShow less
Namita Mondal, 32, whose husband died due to a tiger attack, talks on her mobile phone near her home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
A man carries a sack of harvested rice on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Arti Mondal, 70, whose husband died due to a tiger attack around 20 years ago, carries a stack of harvested paddy on her head as she works on a field on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Nagin Munda, 50, a farmer, walks past an embankment on the island of Kumirmari in the Sundarbans, India, November 19, 2020. "I have no fish left in my pond, no vegetables in my garden, and half my paddy crop is gone," said Munda. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Ashtami Mondal, 30, whose 31-year-old husband Haripada, died in a tiger attack when he went fishing on the rivers encircling Kumirmari during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), cleans utensils in a pond next to her home on the island of Kumirmari in the Sundarbans, India, November 19, 2020. Haripada, the sole breadwinner, returned home from a construction job in mid-March, his family said, days before India's government announced the nationwide lockdown. "He said he would go nearby to fish and make 50-100 rupees to help with household expenses," Ashtami said. He left home before dawn, rowed into the forests and was killed. "If there was no lockdown or no coronavirus, he would have left here to work." REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Ashtami Mondal, 30, whose 31-year-old husband Haripada, died in a tiger attack when he went fishing on the rivers encircling Kumirmari during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), wipes her nine-year-old son Himalesh Mondol's face at their home on the island of Kumirmari in the Sundarbans, India, November 19, 2020. Haripada, the sole breadwinner, returned home from a construction job in mid-March, his family said, days before India's government announced the nationwide lockdown. "He said he would go nearby to fish and make 50-100 rupees to help with household expenses," Ashtami said. He left home before dawn, rowed into the forests and was killed. "If there was no lockdown or no coronavirus, he would have left here to work." REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
A man reads a piece of paper at a restaurant on the island of Gosaba in the Sundarbans, India, November 22, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Namita Mondal, 32, whose husband died due to a tiger attack, sits by her home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 21, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
People travel on a boat near the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, December 16, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Papri Haldar, 11, whose father died in a tiger attack during a fishing trip deep inside the forest, peeps out of her home on the island of Satjelia in the Sundarbans, India, November 20, 2020. Almost all of the 2,000 rupees that Papri's mother Parul makes each month to run her household and send Papri to school comes from fishing and crabbing. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Show moreShow less
Tigers stalk as storms, poverty force Indians deep into mangrove forests