Rare wolf killed in Bangladesh after first appearance in decades

Dhaka: The first Indian grey wolf to be seen in Bangladesh in eight decades has been beaten to death by farmers after preying on their livestock, wildlife experts said on Sunday. The grey wolf was last seen in Bangladesh in 1949, according to the Internati­o­nal Union for Conservation of Na­t­ure. Locals in a town near the Sundarbans — the world’s bigg­est mangrove forest that stradd­les India and Bangladesh —capt­ured and killed the wolf because it had attacked their livestock. “With the images we confirmed the animal is an Ind­i­an grey wo­lf,” Y.V Jhala of the Wildlife Ins­t­i­tute of India told AFP. There are still about 3,000 of the anim­als in India, some in captivity, but they vanished from their habitat in Ba­ngladesh in the 1940s.