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 …
In the Sundarbans mangrove forest in the Gangetic delta (10,284 km2: 58.5% in Bangladesh, 41.5% in India) human-tiger conflicts are more frequent than in any other tiger area of the world. Only a limited number of tiger victim cases reach the public. The term victim is used here for people …
THE SUNDARBANS TERRAIN IS TURNING HOSTILE TO THE BENGAL TIGER AS SALINITY TAKES A TOLL ON THE FLORA & FAUNA Prithvijit Mitra & Achintyarup Ray | TNN Ashutosh Dali could not grow a single shoot in his field ever since it got flooded by saline water during last year
Coastal issues and concerns: challenges for the research community prepared by Consortium of Coastal Academic Institutions for the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM). NCSCM introduce measures to greatly strengthen research and regulatory capacity at all levels; emphasis on the need for Institutions for Coastal Research; strengthen current regulatory …
Ananya Dutta GOSABA (SUNDERBANS): In the year that has gone by since cyclone Aila devastated the Sunderbans, livelihood opportunities have dried up for the inhabitants of the region. The situation has arisen from a failed crops, dwindling fish catches and absence of enterprise and resulted in large scale emigration from …
KOLKATA: Villages in the Aila-affected region of the Sunderbans witnessed a complete shut-down on Tuesday, the first anniversary of the cyclone, as a result of a twelve-hour strike called by the Left Front in protest against the apathy of the Central government to the plight of the inhabitants of the …
Ananya Dutta GOSABA (SUNDERBANS): Houses patched up with tarpaulin, palm leaves, bundled hay, tin and mud; embankments repaired from fresh mud barely withstanding the onslaught of tides and heavy rains; homes rebuilt, only to be washed away in tidal surges, increasing incidents of tiger attacks
The number of tigers in the wild continues to decline, with only around 3,500 wild tigers remaining in the whole world. With an estimated 300 to 500 tigers, the Sundarbans has an opportunity to contribute significantly to the conservation of tigers and biodiversity that they represent. However, to make this …
The World Bank (WB) will provide the government with non-lending technical assistance to help carry out various studies for conservation of the Sundarbans forest, the largest single mangrove ecosystem in the world. The project will develop a programme that will integrate prioritised interventions to address the region's main conservation and …
Tiger numbers in the wild continue to decline throughout most of their range with only around 3,500 wild tigers remaining in the whole world. With an estimated 300-500 tigers, the Bangladesh Sundarbans has an opportunity to contribute significantly to the conservation of tigers and biodiversity that they represent. However, to …
BHUBANESWAR: Some of the critically-important coastal eco-systems of Orissa are set to get a special mention when the Centre restores the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 1991 with certain amendments shortly. Both Bhitarkanika and Chilika figure in the draft for the significance they hold to the Indian coast. Under CRZ 2010, …
KOLKATA, 3 MAY: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will set up a study centre at the Alipore Correctional Home this year where courses on human rights, Bachelor Training Programme and others will be offered at to inmates. According to IGNOU officials, the total number of inmates who have enrolled …
I have often been to the Sunderbans islands on assignments. Despite obsessing over seeing a tiger on each trip, I have never really had the opportunity. Imagine my excitement when the forest department of West Bengal, seeking volunteers for the tiger census 2010, wrote to the non-profit I work for. …
New delhi and Dhaka have joined hands to protect the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forests spread across West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. Environment ministers of the two countries met at a climate change workshop in Kolkata on April 4 and announced that a Sunderbans ecosystem forum would be …
New Delhi: The regime for managing projects and construction on the 7,500-km coastline will undergo substantial changes with the environment ministry having prepared the long-pending coastal regulation zone norms. The ministry
KOLKATA 6 April: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is going to provide technical assistance to farmers in the Aila-affected regions where they could not sow seeds due to high salinity. The initiative was taken after it was found that 80 per cent of the farmers of that area …
A small number of investigations regarding the maneater problem in the Bangladesh Sundarbans have been carried out. So far, the total number of tiger victims in the Sundarbans has remained hidden, since too many casualties of illegal intruders have gone unreported.
Calcutta, March 24: Climate change has erased the source of a three-decades-old Indo-Bangladesh dispute. Both countries have over the years claimed that New Moore Island, known as Purbasha in India and South Talpatti Island in Bangladesh, is their territory. Now, global warming and a consequent rise in the sea level …
Kolkata: The New Moore island in the Bay of Bengal is being swallowed by the rising sea, making it one of the earliest instances of a patch of territory ceasing to exist because of global warming. New Moore Island, also known as Purbasha island, is at the confluence of Ichhamati …
