A tiger census in Sundarbans is in the offing. The census, which will take place in November comes against the backdrop of conflicting reports about the exact number of big cats in the world's largest mangrove forest. As per the last census conducted in 2005, there were 344 tigers in the Sunderbans, but a section of the media reported that the number was dwindling, the state forest minister, Mr Ananta Roy informed the state Assembly today.
Bleeding Fatik Braved 12-Hour Journey Back From Sunderbans Arnab Ganguly | TNN Kolkata: For a split second Fatik Haldar didn't know what had hit him. It was a sudden, searing pain. His feet were stuck in the mud, in four feet of water in a river near Benifeli forest in Sunderbans. Dropping his fishing net, he screamed in agony as four pairs of canines
There is some hope for Mr Stripes straying into human habitation in Sundarbans, but none for the limbering Jumbos which are being shot down at the Nepal border, though concern for both the species was voiced by Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, state chief minister at the meeting of the state wildlife board in Writers' Buildings today.
A fisherman and a honey collector were killed by tigers in the Sundarbans yesterday. Fisherman Abdul Mannan along with others was catching fish in Duner canal in the Sundarbans. A Royal Bengal Tiger swooped on him and dragged him into the deep forest. Abdur Rouf Tarafdar also met the same fate while collecting honey near Khalsibunia area. Local people later recovered their bodies.
Google Earth users around the world will be able to see how climate change could affect the planet and its people over the next century, along with viewing the loss of Antarctic ice shelves over the last 50 years, thanks to a new project. The project, Climate Change in Our World, is the product of a collaboration between Google, the UK government, the UK Met Office Hadley Centre and the British Antarctic Survey to provide two new
The revelation by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) that eight of the 10 warmest years on record since 1901 have been in the last one decade and that all years since 1993, barring one, have clocked higher than normal temperature establish beyond doubt that India's climate has already changed on account of global warming
They cannot measure it in metres; they cannot explain what is happening, but they know they can no longer cope or adapt. My colleague Pradip Saha has been filming in Ghoramara, an island in the Sunderban delta, to understand why, in this zone suspended between land and water, people talk of nothing but subsidence. Savita's narration captures the mood.
A recent study conducted on the stunted growth of mangrove vegetation in the Sundarbans spells doom for Kolkata and parts of south Bengal in the event of a major storm like hurricane Sidr. The study comprising compilation of data regarding salinity, tidal amplitude, turbidity coupled with quantum of dissolved oxygen in the local river water points a warning finger towards the city and the unsuspecting inhabitants living in and around it.
