{"id":845,"date":"2004-12-22T16:26:33","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T21:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=845"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:18:57","slug":"tigers_continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/22\/tigers_continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers continue unabated assault on &ldquo;widows&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonythetiger.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/tonyTheTiger150x238.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"238\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Perhaps the only thing more murderous than the commute in Los Angeles may\nbe the daily trek that workers in Gosaba, India have to deal with:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Between 150-200 people from Gosaba have been killed going\nabout their daily work &mdash; fishing and cutting wood on the edge of the park or\ngathering honey deep in the jungle.<\/p>\n<p>The impoverished villagers say they have little choice but to risk their lives\nin order to eke out an existence in a hostile environment ill-suited to farming.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, 20 to 30 people are carried off by tigers in the Sunderbans, home\nto 270 of the big cats, according to regional forestry department figures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Such tragedies have earned Gosaba the unfortunate monicker of &ldquo;island\nof widows.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n<p>AFP\/Yahoo!: <a href=\"http:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/041221\/19\/s9xy.html\">Man-eating tigers wreak havoc on India&rsquo;s island of widows<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the only thing more murderous than the commute in Los Angeles may be the daily trek that workers in Gosaba, India have to deal with: Between 150-200 people from Gosaba have been killed going about their daily work &mdash; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/22\/tigers_continue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}