Empowered women of the tiger land
With their backs to the wall, the brave women of Sundarban don’t look for promises.
With their backs to the wall, the brave women of Sundarban don’t look for promises.
More than 14,516 households in Sundarbans can now breathe a sigh of relief and they are going to experience brighter evenings soon with the installation of solar lights.
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Tourists planning to explore the enchanting Sundarbans on the first day of the year were left disappointed as numerous boat owners refrained from venturing into the mangrove forests due to the cancellation of licenses.
The Board of Practical Training Eastern Region, under the ministry of education will hold an apprenticeship-cum-job fair at Durgapur on 23 November.
Rainfall-runoff modelling has been undertaken to get an overview of the annual fresh water availability through surface run off
All these are combining to make the Sundarbans the most vulnerable region on the planet at the time of global warming.
Natural disasters always result in more human-tiger conflicts in this region.
Apart from natures fury, the land degrading anthropogenic activity is one of the prime factors for destruction of mangroves. In the forest-society interface, unplanned overexploitation of natural resources is very common. In case of Sundarbans also, as a result of continuously increasing population pressure almost half of the mangrove forests have been cut to supply fuel wood, while land has been reclaimed for settlement, aquaculture and various other purposes.
The Sundarbans comprises an ecosystem that forms the frontal area of the Gangetic belt. For all the scenic beauty that the region presents with its unique mangrove forests; for all the biodiversity that it houses; for all the attraction that it has earned as the home of the Royal Bengal Tiger, the region’s primary claim to fame is that it is the most powerful bulwark against natural cataclysms.
