After earlier disagreements between the Geneva-based parent organization and its Indian unit, the WWF in 1998 set up an independent office to run thetigerproject.
Adam Barlow of the Sundarbans TigerProject, which monitors and protects the 300-500 tigers of Bangladesh's giant Sundarbans mangrove forest, dismissed Mr Hossein's theory of why the tigers died.
Also, last month leftist parties insisted on changes to new wildlife legislation that weakened a proposed new anti-poaching unit and conservation watchdog, the National Tiger Conservation Authority, that had been intended to be more powerful than ProjectTiger.