Locals face problem of living in one district and voting for another
Around 3,000-odd residents face the problem of living in close proximity to Katwa town in Burdwan but voting in away Krishnagar in Nadia.
Around 3,000-odd residents face the problem of living in close proximity to Katwa town in Burdwan but voting in away Krishnagar in Nadia.
The deaths of the endangered fresh water cataceans like Gangetic Dolphins, the experts opined, are results of the indiscriminate laying of 'killer' gill & ghost nets by fishermen.
This year there was a total sighting of 156 numbers of these species, enjoying protection under the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
The enumerators are covering the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, Dhamara coast, estuaries in Bhitarkanika, Hukitola, Paradip and Kujang coast.
The dolphins and the boatmen have a symbiotic relationship. The more the glimpse of the dolphins better the business.
We, as a species, are entirely disconnected from nature and we make sure that our children move away as quickly as they can. We have no more play the swings and seesaws of children's playgrounds are not play, but simply things to do to use up time.
Echolocation by animals, like bats and dolphins, proves consistently better than artificial methods but their prey have developed unique defence mechanisms too.
The pollution and rapid urbanisation are adversely affecting the freshwater bodies and their fauna in the country, Zoological Survey of…
