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 …
Sunderbans islanders are caught between a shameless North and a callous South THE district administration in southern West Bengal got the warning for Aila, the cyclone to hit Sagar Island, about 20 hours in advance
Water accumulated in a Sunderbans village flows into a dam damaged by the Aila. Amit Datta Calcutta, June 25: The cyclone had swamped their land and blown away their homes. A month on, thousands still live under the sky in Aila-swept Sunderbans. And every sunrise means a fresh ordeal because …
A month after cyclone Aila hit the state and caused a large-scale devastation to the island hamlets of the Sunderbans, residents of the area are still reeling under a shortage of food and other relief material. And, in a desperate bid to acquire essentials, villagers have started to form small …
Three problems have made the world's largest mangrove forest the Sundrbans have become unprotected. The problems are necessary manpower to guard the home of world famous Royal Bengal tiger, maximum number of water vessels of the forest are not in shape and dearth of fuel has put the officers and …
Cyclone Aila hit West Bengal on May 25 with a fury unprecedented in recent history. It took at least 94 lives, seven of them in Kolkata, and affected over 40 lakh people. More than six lakh houses were destroyed completely or damaged partially. The cyclone originated in the Bay of …
As no clear picture of changes in vegetation or micro flora and fauna in the Sunderbans is available, the state forest department is contemplating carrying out a thorough survey in the area soon. The department will send a proposal to the Centre for conducting the survey jointly with the Zoological …
KOLKATA 16 June: Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi today said the Union government was contemplating an action plan to address the issues of climate change and global warming.
KOLKATA: The West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation (WBGEDC) has decided to install solar lanterns in schools and relief camps in which the people left homeless after the recent Aila tragedy are taking shelter in the Sunderbans. Several solar panels in the Sunderbans were damaged in the storm and the …
Pakhiralay, June 7: A sense of relief swept across the Sunderbans after two weeks of living on the edge when the hungry tide that everyone had feared came without its appetite for destruction. Some embankments were breached, water levels of rivers rose and villages were inundated during the spring tide, …
KOLKATA, 4 JUNE: After a tiger had taken shelter in a village hut in the wake of cyclone Aila, wildlife experts are worried about the whereabouts of these big cats, many of which, may have been displaced from its natural habitat. Yet, these big cats could have been easily traced …
Sixty-one of the 133 hatchlings of crocodiles and five of the 13 deer have been missing from Wild Animal Breeding Centre at Karomjal under Chandpai Range of the east wing of Sundarbans Forest Division. The matter was detected after Chandpai Range Deputy Ranger Abdur Rob, who is also acting as …
Ravik Bhattacharya Lahiripur (Sunderban Island): Nine-year-old Sandeepa Gharami survived Cyclone Aila, but succumbed in its aftermath. She died on an embankment near Lahiripur on Friday after several days of continuous vomiting and diarrhoea. She received no medical care. Her parents buried her by the river. A week after the storm, …
In troubled waters: The people of Gosaba Island in the Sundarbans of West Bengal waiting for the supply of drinking water from the government. KOLKATA: Even as the West Bengal government has stepped up efforts to ensure that adequate relief reaches storm victims, a debate is on over the procedures …
