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Concrete embankments along Sunderbans an ecological disaster: Environmentalists [1]

The fragile ecology of the Sundarbans delta, which is home to four million people and the Royal Bengal Tiger, is now facing a fresh threat from large-scale construction of concrete embankments all

Publication Date: 
26/12/2012
Statesman (Kolkata) [2]
Tags:
Sundarbans [3], Ecology [4], Environment [5], Tiger [6], Endangered Species [7], Coastal Erosion [8], UNESCO [9], Rivers [10], Mangroves [11], Forests [12], Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) [13], Climate Change [14], WWF [15]
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