The story of the Sundarbans Tiger Project The Sundarbans Tiger Project (STP) started in 2004 as a scientific research project interested in finding out more about the Sundarbans tigers in order to better understand how to conserve them. One day in 2007 the STP team was researching inside the forest, when a small man-powered fishing boat slowly approached them. Inside this boat they found a dead man and a second man lying heavily wounded. They were both the victims of a tiger attack. The STP team quickly transported the injured man to hospital before he succumbed to his wounds and the dead man to his village for burial. This incident triggered the team to set up the STP Tiger Response Team which now patrols the forest by boat, providing emergency medical treatment and transport for tiger attack victims. This incident also marked the beginning of the growth of the STP team. The team is learning more and more about the main threats to tigers, and upon this knowledge base, STP is evolving rapidly to ensure that the issues illuminated by research are tackled via conservation action on the ground. From small beginnings we hope to achieve great things.