India, Jan. 24 -- Do women bear the brunt of saltwater crocodile attacks in the Sundarbans (divided between India and Bangladesh), the world's largest mangrove forest and an UNESCO World Heritage Site? Recent research certainly hints at the possibility.

According to a study published in 2017 in the Cambridge University Press and conducted in the Indian section of the Sundarbans, almost 80 per cent of the victims of human-crocodile conflicts were collectors of prawn seedlings (known as meen in Bangla), and that 61.16 per cent of the victims died as a result of the attacks.

The study, Human-crocodile conflict in the Indian Sundarbans: an analysis of spatio-temporal incidences in relation to people's livelihood, shows that female victims a...