The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the only mangrove in the world where tigers still live. The Sundarbans has been under various forms of management for about 2,000 years, and is classified as a Tiger Conservation Landscape of Global Priority. Little is known about the Sundarbans tigers, which are threatened by habitat destruction, prey depletion, and direct tiger loss.
Following the death of a Royal Bengal Tiger in the custody of State Forest Department, the West Bengal government is planning to set up a wildlife treatment and rehabilitation centre near the forest.
It was a profitable venture in the the 1980s and 1990s. But shrimp farming, the livelihood of many in the Sunderbans, has hit a terrible low. MAUREEN NANDINI MITRA finds out why Squatting on the slippery, clay-covered jetty, her thin cotton saree dripping wet, Meena Sahu, scoops water out of her bucket with a broken clam shell, transfers it to a white enamelled iron bowl and counts the fine,
Worried about increasing incidence of the Royal Bengal Tigers straying into human settlements the chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has asked the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve to conduct a survey.
Climate change impacts are a clear and present danger to the Indian sub-continent. This report presents case studies from different parts of India, where local communities are under the assault of climate change. Calls for action that can help in long term mitigation and local level adaptation and ten broad areas of intervention have also been identified in the given national context.
Ministry of Tourism, Government of India and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in India have been involved in an initiative on Rural Tourism. Covering 36 sites spread geographically over the country, these pilot project experiences had much to offer in terms of learning about the intersection between community dynamics and tourism projects.
SONARPUR: To resolve the problem of drinking water, the Sundarban Development Authority (SDA) is planning to install reservoirs in some blocks of Sundarban.
Malda, Sept. 19: The Bengal forest department is looking for 300 acres in Jharkhali on the edge of the Sunderbans in South 24-Parganas to set up a tiger rescue centre.
