Last Updated: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 12:04
The Sunderbans, a world heritage site, is becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 21:58
West Bengal cabinet has cleared acquisition of 3700 acres in Sunderbans for building new embankments and restoring those damaged by the Aila cyclone.
Last Updated: Monday, July 12, 2010, 18:14
An estimated 15% of the Sunderbans delta will go under the sea by 2020.
Last Updated: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 11:27
Two rare white crocodiles, born at the Bhagabatpur crocodile breeding park, are catching the fancy of tourists visiting the delta region here.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 12:23
With embankments of most rivers in Sunderbans facing threat of collapse due to rise in the level of the sea, a `Save Sunderbans` campaign will be launched in the world`s largest mangrove forest next month.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 15:16
The New Moore Island, once a Indo-Bangla flashpoint, has been consumed by the rising sea.
Last Updated: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 09:59
For an authentic scientific study of their behaviour, tigers in the Sunderbans, the world`s only mangrove eco-system which has big cats, will be fitted with radio collars, forest officials said.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 11:09
The increasing global temperature may spell doom for the Sunderban tigers as a WWF study has cautioned that rise of 28 centimetre in sea levels will engulf 96 percent of their habitat.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 20:34
Rising sea levels has forced thousands of families to leave their ancestral houses and lands in the Sunderbans area of West Bengal, and many more are living in the constant fear of losing theirs.
Last Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009, 13:12
The West Bengal government for the first time will conduct tiger census through DNA sampling of the animal`s scat in Sunderbans in January next year.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 22:03
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today sought Centre`s help in devising a long-term plan to prevent recurrence of natural calamities like Aila cyclone in the Sundarbans.
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