Sanctuary Asia & Bengal Tiger Line has been jointly implementing a Bengal Tiger Bachaao campaign in West Bengal. To win over local communities, together with the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, we are organizing a daylong football tournament -BAGH'er jonno KHELUN! at Debipur village, in the Gurguria / Kultoli area (also near Deulbari) on Sunday June 13, 2010.

This particular venue has significance, as it is adjacent to the embankment forest area where a Tigress had entered in January this year and had kept itself confined in the mangrove patch for almost 7 days before the foresters were able to rescue the animal with support from the locals.

To the best of our knowledge, something like this is being done for the very first time with the Tiger as the pivot. The tournament is sure to get great support with the World Cup fever that will soon take the nation by storm. The fact that 2010 has been declared as the International Year of Biodiversity by the United Nations makes it all the more important for us to motivate young people to work together to protect the incredible biodiversity of the Sundarbans.

The prime objective is to create a platform through which the South 24 Parganas Forest Division under the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve can build a strong and effective support base for Tiger conservation and this is an attempt to help them achieve this goal.

Today a press meet was held at Kolkata's Outram Club this afterneen to announce the event & unveil the set of 8 team jerseys.

Actor Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, former national footballer Goutam Sarkar, Bengal's 1st Mt.Everest climber-duo Basanta Singha Roy & Debasish Biswas were there to unveil the jerseys.