Tiger film called off

Failing to find any tigers in the Sundarbans, the crew of the documentary film “Tiger-Tiger” is heading back to Dhaka today.
Famous Director George Butler was making the film, which was supposed to show Alan Rabinowitz, an eminent big cat conservationist, travelling through the Sundarbans, a Bengal Tiger habitat.
Earlier, a group of conservationists expressed concern as White Mountain Films, the US-based film-producing company, sought government permission for “supervised and limited use of tiger bait or scent” for filming.
According to Bangladesh Wildlife Conservation Act (amendment), 2012, attracting tigers with bait is strictly prohibited.
Representatives of the film producer told The Daily Star yesterday evening that the crew did not use any bait or lure as they did not get the permission for it.
“They could not take any footage of tigers in the Indian part as well. But they got some paw prints at Katka in the forest,” Sarker Maswood Hasan, public relations officer to White Mountain Films, told The Daily Star yesterday.
A press statement, signed by film producer Keero Birla, said the intention of the film was to help Bengal Tiger conservation by introducing the Sundarbans to the international audience and to highlight the tireless work going on there to save the tigers.