A landmark step towards preserving and showcasing the ecological and cultural legacy of the Sundarbans was witnessed on International Museum Day as the soft launch of the upcoming Sundarban Museum was successfully held at iLEAD.
Along narrow village roads flanked by farmland and mangrove groves, rickshaw-vans crawl forward with loudspeakers blaring campaign slogans.
In a significant discovery, researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) in Kolkata have found a new spider species at Sagar Island in the Sundarbans.
The state government has ordered a full-fledged inquiry into the Patharpratima cracker factory blast and also sought a report from the South 24-Parganas district magistrate in which eight people, including children were killed.
The 29the edition of the United Nation’s Conference of Parties on Environment (COP29) will begin next month. The countdown calls for different aspects of climate change to be discussed.
The Wildlife Institute of India has identified Chamta as a forest block with a notably low density of the tiger population. However, the problem of relocation is rooted in the fact that the “optimum carrying capacity” of a forest is not a static concept. Therefore, relocating tigers to a forest that is different from where they came is a fraught proposition.
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.
