Gill nets causing deaths of endangered Gangetic dolphins
Thickly knitted fishing gill nets have caused the death of yet another river dolphin today leaving the state fishery and the forest officials in jeopardy.
Thickly knitted fishing gill nets have caused the death of yet another river dolphin today leaving the state fishery and the forest officials in jeopardy.
Three years ago, the irrigation department and the zilla parishad together had planted caged boulder stone blocks to create an artificial wall along the riverbank but Amphan destabilised that wall this year. House of one Suraj Sheikh is located barely 200 metres away from the river now.
Hundreds of locals made a beeline from the neighbouring Amarun, Arra, Ambona villages today to a mango garden at Mahata village within Bhatar Police Station limits after the tunnel was exposed when labourers were excavating earth.
