The number of recent recoveries of tiger skin and bones in and around the Sundarbans apparently dooms the government initiatives to save the Bengal Tigers and their habitat.
SONARPUR, 18 JULY: Although environmentalists have stressed the importance of tree plantation for regulating pollution level in the air, illegal felling of trees is on the rise in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. People living in close proximity to forests in South 24-Parganas are directly involved in illegal trade in wood.
A mock parliamentary debate on the feasibility of commercial deer farming in Bangladesh will be held at the Eastern University auditorium in the capital today.
Lack of implementation of 100 days job guarantee scheme under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in several blocks of the Sunderbans, has forced a large number of tribals to engage themselves in haria (hooch) manufacturing units to earn their living.
Tribals here who had earlier been roped in under various NREGA schemes later disassociated themselves from the hooch-manufacturin
KOLKATA, 4 JULY: Sunderbans will get the country's first floating library meant for people residing on the fringes of the mangrove forest.
A local NGO, in collaboration with the West Bengal Sarva Siksha Mission, is launching the first-of-its-kind floating library on a motorised boat.
World Bank will provide 36 million US dollar (approximately Tk 254 crore) loan to Bangladesh for conservation of the wildlife, including tiger.
Environment and Forests Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said this while he was talking to newsmen after a meeting with World Bank Country Director Ellen Goldstein at his Secretariat office yesterday.
He said the meeting has decided that Bangladesh will host
Wildlife experts said that the government should focus on conserving the existing number of tigers rather than trying to increase the number as proposed by last year
