The world is making progress towards ending the loss of mangrove forests, according to this new report by the FAO. Found on the coastlines of 123 countries worldwide, over 20 percent of mangroves are estimated to have been lost globally over the past 40 years, mainly due to both human …
World Bank will provide 36 million US dollar (approximately Tk 254 crore) loan to Bangladesh for conservation of the wildlife, including tiger. Environment and Forests Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said this while he was talking to newsmen after a meeting with World Bank Country Director Ellen Goldstein at his Secretariat …
Wildlife experts said that the government should focus on conserving the existing number of tigers rather than trying to increase the number as proposed by last year
The mission director for United States Agency for International Development, Denise Rollins, has said the agency will continue its assistance in conserving the Sundarban. She was addressing a workshop in Dhaka on Tuesday organised by the government to discuss ways the government, donor partners and the private sector could work …
The tall green blades of salt marsh grass (Porteresia coarctata) or wild rice that grows in abundance on the mud flats of Sunderbans with the mangroves, are being used to develop fisheries into a more sustainable and environment friendly source of livelihood for the local villagers. It is said to …
This study attempts to establish the challenges associated to solar energy scenario in rural living of south-east of Indian province namely West Bengal and to suggest an inexpensive solar artifact with an aim to cater to the areas which are scarcely electrified and primarily in countryside. Stockpile of fossil fuels …
The mangrove species Heritiera littoralis Dryand, from which the name Sundarbans has been derived, has for the first time been found in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts by botanists. A research paper about the findings of two botanists
The National Tiger Conservation Authority in association with its various partner organisations declared the official tiger estimate in India for 2010. This latest tiger census puts estimated tiger population in the country at 1636. See Also Report: Status of the tigers, co-predators, and prey in India Document: MoEF on Tiger …
The Vision Document has been created in reposnse to a priority action point identified at a multi stakeholder workshop held in Kolkata in March 2009 on Sunderbans :Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation. The document provides a long-term perspective of 40 years into the future spelling out a strategy in terms …
KOLKATA, 3 FEB: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has decided to bear the travel cost of pregnant women of the Sunderbans after it was found that most of these women shied away from attending hospitals for their delivery as they are located in far-flung areas. Senior state health officials …
Gosaba (Pathankhali island), 1 Feb: The villagers of Pathankhali island finally got electricity today. The Sunderban development minister Mr Kanti Ganguly inaugurated the programme. The estimated cost of the project of providing electricity to the village is Rs 22 crore. Work is underway to provide electricity to the 12 gram …
Indian Statistical Institute Director Bimal K. Roy has said that according to present statistics, the Sunderbans in West Bengal has the largest number of tigers in the world. Presenting a paper on
The government has taken an initiative to develop the ecosystems as well as production capacity of the Sundarban, the world’s largest mangrove forest, by increasing its resilience against natural calamities. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on Tuesday approved a Tk 128 crore project titled ‘Sundarban Environmental and …
KOLKATA, 12 JAN: The School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University, in a study found that water level in the Bay of Bengal off the Sunderbans coast has risen four times over the past nine years. The sudden rise is posing a real threat to the Sagar Island among other islands …
Leading ecologists yesterday called for an environment revolution in the country cautioning that public health and sustainable development will be at stake soon otherwise. "An environmental revolution is necessary for the sake of our future," said Dr Ainun Nishat, vice chancellor of Brac University at a roundtable. "You will see …
KOLKATA, 13 DEC: To solve the problem of drinking water, the Sunderbans Development Authority (SDA) is planning to install reservoirs in some of the blocks of the area. The poor village folk residing in the remote villages of the Sunderbans face an acute scarcity of drinking water. Villagers living in …
The cats in your para may be multiplying but at least one of the four cat species found in and around Calcutta is vanishing along with the wetlands the animals thrive on. Wildlife specialists have no clue about the population of the fast-disappearing fishing cats, which have been spotted in …
Ecological diversity in Sunderban is at the threshold of decline. The fragile land here is being swallowed every day by gradual sea level rise, coastal erosion and tropical cyclones. Besides the global cause of sea level rise i.e. thermal expansion of sea water also responsible is the land degrading anthropogenic …
Human-wildlife conflict is widespread in today’s South Asia and the wider world. Forty-seven elephants, seven leopards and two tigers have been killed in the last twenty months in the forests of northern Bengal. The deaths of elephants were caused in most cases by speeding trains. The problem of human-animal conflict …
This report attempts to present a short ecological history of the Indian Sundarbans, one covering only two decades, to show how climate change is, within even this smallest of timeframes in ecological terms, causing exaggerated and sometimes irreversible damage. It is an attempt to explain how the Sundarbans is changing, …
KOLKATA, 29 NOV: Although environmentalists have emphasised the importance of tree plantation for regulating pollution level in the air and restricting global warming, illegal tree felling is on the rise in the Sunderbans ~ the world
