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 …
Ministry of Tourism, Government of India and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in India have been involved in an initiative on Rural Tourism. Covering 36 sites spread geographically over the country, these pilot project experiences had much to offer in terms of learning about the intersection between community dynamics …
SONARPUR: To resolve the problem of drinking water, the Sundarban Development Authority (SDA) is planning to install reservoirs in some blocks of Sundarban. There is an acute scarcity of drinking water in the remote villages of Sundarban. The villagers living in far-flung pockets used to drink water from ponds and …
Malda, Sept. 19: The Bengal forest department is looking for 300 acres in Jharkhali on the edge of the Sunderbans in South 24-Parganas to set up a tiger rescue centre.
Rise in sea level posing threat to population in Sunderbans Sunderbans: Global warming and consequent rise in the sea level is posing a threat to the population, turning them into
Vegetation changes point to rising sea levels Abhishek Law KOLKATA, Sept. 11: Is Kolkata under threat due to rising sea levels? Has there been an increase in land inundation because of global sea-level rise? It appears so with mangrove plants, that were previously restricted to the Sunderbans only, being found …
This study attempts to examine the extent and impact of human-animal conflicts visa-vis psychosocial stressors and mental health of affected people in two villages adjacent to Sundarban Reserve Forest (SRF) in the Gosaba Block, West Bengal, India.
The expected long-term impact of the Sundarbans Biodiversity Conservation Project was to secure the integrity of the environment and biodiversity of the Sundarbans Reserved Forest (SRF). Comprising 6,000 square kilometers, the SRF is a globally significant ecosystem with a rich area of biodiversity and natural resources. It is the world
From the Gir National Park in Gujarat to the Sunderbans in West Bengal, lions and tigers are ranging far beyond territories administered by the forest department. Communities that have traditionally been accommodative are now unsettled, their patience worn thin by the rising incidents of human-animal conflicts. Yet, the debate on …
Tigers attack people. People impatient, they are second priority. What is the way out? July 24, 2007. Hungry and exhausted after fishing all day on the Bidyadhari river, Amirul Naiya, his two brothers and three other fishermen pulled up their country boat into a creek in the dense Sunderbans mangroves, …
Ruthless corruption leading to massive depletion of forest resources is an existential threat to the sustainability of the country's environment. A forest represents, besides environmental sustainability, prevention of disasters like flood and cyclone and fertility of the soil, as well as economic well-being of a vast section of people who …
The future looks bleak for the tigers of Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest at the mouth of the Ganges river. Today some 400 of these impressive carnivores roam through the world's largest surviving mangrove ecosystem. By mid-century, global warming is likely to have starved the Sunderbans' tigers into oblivion.
Pachauri meets West Bengal Chief Minister They discuss impact of climate change on State's ecosystem TERI proposes setting up of climate-related research centre Kolkata: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is working on a project on the Sunderbans delta, a fragile ecosystem now threatened by rising sea-levels, TERI director-general R.K. …
A tiger census in Sundarbans is in the offing. The census, which will take place in November comes against the backdrop of conflicting reports about the exact number of big cats in the world's largest mangrove forest. As per the last census conducted in 2005, there were 344 tigers in …
Bleeding Fatik Braved 12-Hour Journey Back From Sunderbans Arnab Ganguly | TNN Kolkata: For a split second Fatik Haldar didn't know what had hit him. It was a sudden, searing pain. His feet were stuck in the mud, in four feet of water in a river near Benifeli forest in …
There is some hope for Mr Stripes straying into human habitation in Sundarbans, but none for the limbering Jumbos which are being shot down at the Nepal border, though concern for both the species was voiced by Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, state chief minister at the meeting of the state wildlife …
China and India are keen to be seen to be tackling climate change, but they insist the West must take the first constructive step, says Nitin Sethi So what has the price you pay for rice got to do with big jamboreelike UN climate change meetings? Adding to inflation woes, …
A fisherman and a honey collector were killed by tigers in the Sundarbans yesterday. Fisherman Abdul Mannan along with others was catching fish in Duner canal in the Sundarbans. A Royal Bengal Tiger swooped on him and dragged him into the deep forest. Abdur Rouf Tarafdar also met the same …
Google Earth users around the world will be able to see how climate change could affect the planet and its people over the next century, along with viewing the loss of Antarctic ice shelves over the last 50 years, thanks to a new project. The project, Climate Change in Our …
The revelation by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) that eight of the 10 warmest years on record since 1901 have been in the last one decade and that all years since 1993, barring one, have clocked higher than normal temperature establish beyond doubt that India's climate has already changed on …
