A small number of investigations regarding the maneater problem in the Bangladesh Sundarbans have been carried out. So far, the total number of tiger victims in the Sundarbans has remained hidden, since too many casualties of illegal intruders have gone unreported.
Calcutta, March 24: Climate change has erased the source of a three-decades-old Indo-Bangladesh dispute.
Both countries have over the years claimed that New Moore Island, known as Purbasha in India and South Talpatti Island in Bangladesh, is their territory.
Now, global warming and a consequent rise in the sea level has submerged the 3.5km-by-3km island completely.
Kolkata: The New Moore island in the Bay of Bengal is being swallowed by the rising sea, making it one of the earliest instances of a patch of territory ceasing to exist because of global warming.
Once a flashpoint in Indo-Bangla ties, the New Moore island or Purbasha in the Bay of Bengal, which Dhaka called the South Talpatti, has ceased to exist, consumed by hungry tides and the rising sea.
This was announced on Monday by the School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University after it scrutinised recent satellite maps of the region.
Kolkata: The World Wide Fund for Nature has warned that days are numbered for much of the sensitive Sunderbans eco-system and in 60 years, vast tracts of the mangroves, home to the Bengal tiger, will go under sea.
The district human development report of North 24 Parganas portrays the diverse features of this district and also depicts the multilayered development that has taken place, over the past five to six decades. Burgeoning urbanisation and very presence of the Sunderbans open up a rare opportunity to the policy makers and practitioners of development of further study the intrinsic nature of
The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is going to enact a law for all the new buildings making it mandatory for them to install low carbon emitting lights.
