Searched for
INDIAN SUNDERBANS
India-Bangladesh border talks in Delhi next week; 1st after new BNP governmentIssues related to border fencing, attacks on BSF personnel, checking infiltration and cross-border crimes and handing over of illegal Bangl...
Tiger count up in Sunderbans, latest survey puts total at over 85The number of big cats in the Indian Sunderbans is healthy and rising. A recent camera-trap exercise has spotted at least 9 more tigers ove...
Man-animal conflict to rise in Sunderbans : studyThe study also brought out the fact that most of the dense mangrove forest will degrade into less dense, open mangrove forest by the turn o...
Climate alert for swamp tigerMore alert has been sounded for the Sunderbans tiger on the climate front.
- Global concern for Sunderbans
The World Heritage Committee has expressed alarm over a massive oil spill in the Bangladeshi side of the Sunderbans — a world heritage site...
Sunderbans sea level to rise 3-8 mm per year: World Bank reportThe report stated that the sea level rise could mainly be attributed to land subsidence caused by various natural and anthropogenic process...
- Sunderbans sea level to rise 3-8 mm per year: World Bank report
The water level in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, is rising at an "alarming" level, endangering the habitation, a Wor...
Oil spill alarm in Sundarban mangrovesBiswajit Roy Chowdhury, state wildlife advisory board member, is also worried about Olive Ridley turtles that migrate around this time and ...
- Oil spill alarm in Sundarban mangroves
Marine scientists, wildlife activists and forest officers from Indian Sunderbans have gone on alert following the oil spill in Bangladesh.
- Now, a climate model for Sunderbans
A team of nearly 50 scientists led by coastal engineering expert Robert Nicholls from Southampton University travelled to the Tiger camp in...
- New mangrove species found in Sunderbans
Acanthus Albus, a sprawling under-shrub up to 1.5 m long, was found by an NGO last July. It has been confirmed as a new mangrove variety by...
- Nothing truly Bengali about Royal Bengal Tiger?
Gene studies say that the Sunderbans tiger population is identical to the tiger population of central India and has been isolated recently,...
- Rare turtles to be released in Sunderbans
Inspired by the their success in hatching the critically endangered Northern River Terrapin or Sunderbans Batagur, officials of the Sunderb...
- Ten Sunderbans tigers to get collars
The forest department has decided to radio-collar ten tigers in the Sunderbans where population dynamics of the big cats has al ways remain...
- Poaching fears return to Sunderbans
The beast of poaching may have reared its ugly head after four years in the Sunderbans, a reserve much feted for its conservation programme...
- 'Development deficit worsening climate change in Sunderbans'
Observing that climate change is adversely affecting the world heritage site of Sunderbans, a new study has blamed development deficit for ...
Sundarbans’ Saline KillerAshutosh Dali could not grow a single shoot in his field ever since it got flooded by saline water during last year’s Cyclone Aila. Yet, th...
- Sunderbans will drown in 60 years: WWF
The World Wildlife Fund has warned that days are numbered for much of the sensitive Sunderbans eco-system and in 60 years vast tracts of th...
Sunderbans will drown in 60 yrs: WWFThe WWF has warned that days are numbered for much of the sensitive Sunderbans eco-system and in 60 years vast tracts of the rare mangrove ...
- DNA sampling for tiger census in Sunderbans
The West Bengal government for the first time will conduct tiger census through DNA sampling of the animal's scat in Sunderbans in January ...