INDIAN SUNDERBANS
Bangladesh unrest: Indian Coast Guard deploys aircraft, hovercraft for maritime border surveillance
Bangladesh is experiencing a volatile political situation, with Sheikh Hasina resigning from the post of Prime Minister on August 5 amid mounting protests. The protests, led mainly by students demanding an end to a quota system for government jobs, evolved into anti-government demonstrations.
Indian Coast Guard to install 38 new radar stations across the country
Indian Coast Guard officials announced the installation of 38 new radar stations across the country, in addition to the existing 46. West Bengal and Odisha will receive four new radar stations by August. Bengal's radar stations will be in South 24 Paragans district's Frasergunj and East Midnapore's Junput. Odisha's radar stations will be in Chandrabhaga and Arakhuda.
Mamata Banerjee's mangrove project does not enthuse eco-watchers
Specialists who have been observing Sunderbans’ ecology wondered whether it was possible to plant five crore or even more saplings in this region –– a plan which sounds absurd to experts.
Cruise to Bangladesh, northeast likely from March 2019
A transboundary river cruise operation is expected to commence from Kolkata in March next year through Sunderbans to Bangladesh and then to connect the northeastern destinations by private operators, a senior official said.
Tiger count up in Sunderbans, latest survey puts total at over 85
The number of big cats in the Indian Sunderbans is healthy and rising. A recent camera-trap exercise has spotted at least 9 more tigers over last year’s figures in the entire mangroves, including the tiger reserve area and the South 24-Parganas forest division.
Man-animal conflict to rise in Sunderbans : study
The study also brought out the fact that most of the dense mangrove forest will degrade into less dense, open mangrove forest by the turn of 2050.
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Climate alert for swamp tiger
More alert has been sounded for the Sunderbans tiger on the climate front.
Global concern for Sunderbans
The World Heritage Committee has expressed alarm over a massive oil spill in the Bangladeshi side of the Sunderbans — a world heritage site — and asked Bengal and Dhaka to join hands in a “trans-boundary agreement” to protect the world’s most spectacular mangroves.
Sunderbans sea level to rise 3-8 mm per year: World Bank report
The report stated that the sea level rise could mainly be attributed to land subsidence caused by various natural and anthropogenic processes.
Sunderbans sea level to rise 3-8 mm per year: World Bank report
The water level in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, is rising at an "alarming" level, endangering the habitation, a World Bank report has suggested.
Oil spill alarm in Sundarban mangroves
Biswajit Roy Chowdhury, state wildlife advisory board member, is also worried about Olive Ridley turtles that migrate around this time and the fate of Gangetic and Irrawaddy dolphins that the mangroves are home to.
350-tonne oil spill by Bangladeshi ship threatens Sunderbans
The site, near Mongla port, is about 100 km from the Kolkata port and Indian officials are on alert over the possibility of the oil slick spreading to the Indian side.
350-tonne oil spill by Bangladeshi ship threatens Sunderbans
The fragile Sundarbans region stared at an ecological nightmare after a vessel carrying 350 tonnes of oil crashed, spilling the toxic liquid over an 80-sq-km area along the Sela river in Bangladesh and threatening a sanctuary of rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins.
Oil spill alarm in Sundarban mangroves
Marine scientists, wildlife activists and forest officers from Indian Sunderbans have gone on alert following the oil spill in Bangladesh.
Now, a climate model for Sunderbans
A team of nearly 50 scientists led by coastal engineering expert Robert Nicholls from Southampton University travelled to the Tiger camp in the Indian Sunderbans on Monday to develop a climate model that can be adapted to secure water supply, health and food security for millions residing along this belt.
New mangrove species found in Sunderbans
Acanthus Albus, a sprawling under-shrub up to 1.5 m long, was found by an NGO last July. It has been confirmed as a new mangrove variety by the Botanical Survey of India and the Indian Journal of Forestry.
Nothing truly Bengali about Royal Bengal Tiger?
Gene studies say that the Sunderbans tiger population is identical to the tiger population of central India and has been isolated recently, may be 300-1000 years ago, from the latter.
Rare turtles to be released in Sunderbans
Inspired by the their success in hatching the critically endangered Northern River Terrapin or Sunderbans Batagur, officials of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (STR) are now planning to release the reptiles in the wild.
Take a river cruise and enjoy India’s iconic rivers
Wake up to the sound of birds, the splash of oars cutting through water and the smell of rural India and its natural greenery when you go on an Indian River Cruise.
Vets to study virus turning tigers into maneaters
Britain’s Wildlife Vets International (WVI) plans to study whether a virus common among Indian dogs was infecting tigers of the Sunderbans and turning them into man-eaters.
Ten Sunderbans tigers to get collars
The forest department has decided to radio-collar ten tigers in the Sunderbans where population dynamics of the big cats has al ways remained a mystery.
Ten tigers to be radio-collared in Sunderbans
The forest department has decided to radio-collar ten tigers in the Sunderbans, where population dynamics of the big cats has always remained a mystery.
Poaching fears return to Sunderbans
The beast of poaching may have reared its ugly head after four years in the Sunderbans, a reserve much feted for its conservation programmes.
'Development deficit worsening climate change in Sunderbans'
Observing that climate change is adversely affecting the world heritage site of Sunderbans, a new study has blamed development deficit for worsening the situation.
Sundarbans’ Saline Killer
Ashutosh Dali could not grow a single shoot in his field ever since it got flooded by saline water during last year’s Cyclone Aila. Yet, the 50-year-old fisherman will not go fishing any more
Sunderbans will drown in 60 years: WWF
The World Wildlife Fund has warned that days are numbered for much of the sensitive Sunderbans eco-system and in 60 years vast tracts of the rare mangrove forests, home to the Bengal tiger, will be inundated by the rising sea.
Sunderbans will drown in 60 yrs: WWF
The WWF has warned that days are numbered for much of the sensitive Sunderbans eco-system and in 60 years vast tracts of the rare mangrove forests, home to the Bengal tiger, will be inundated by the rising sea.
DNA sampling for tiger census in Sunderbans
The West Bengal government for the first time will conduct tiger census through DNA sampling of the animal's scat in Sunderbans in January next year.
Second strayed tiger from Sunderbans caged
A tiger, prowling a forest near Sunderbans in South 24-Pargans district for the past 24 hours, was caged by forest department.
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