Local women come forward to save Sundarbans
The women have taken upon themselves the task of reviving the Sunderbans by planting mangrove saplings alongside the river to ensure that the area around their houses remains safe and secure.
The women have taken upon themselves the task of reviving the Sunderbans by planting mangrove saplings alongside the river to ensure that the area around their houses remains safe and secure.
The goal of the partnership is to help transition the local economy to one that relies on keeping mangroves intact and healthy.
Apart from natures fury, the land degrading anthropogenic activity is one of the prime factors for destruction of mangroves. In the forest-society interface, unplanned overexploitation of natural resources is very common. In case of Sundarbans also, as a result of continuously increasing population pressure almost half of the mangrove forests have been cut to supply fuel wood, while land has been reclaimed for settlement, aquaculture and various other purposes.
Next, CM emphasised on taking up a separate development plan for Digha, which has suffered severe damage due to the cyclone and gave responsibility of Digha Development Authority, which was earlier held by Adhikari, to newly appointed irrigation secretary Prabhat Kumar Mishra.
Participating artists have encouraged everyone to take part in producing artworks under the campaign. Fifty selected artworks from the campaign will be presented as a Zine to the Environment Ministry in June 2021.
Meanwhile, National Green Tribunal (NGT) has already threatened to take appropriate action against those who are ‘indulging’ in rampant destructions of mangroves at Gangasagar if the committee reports are found true.
In areas where mangroves have been cleared, coastal damage from hurricanes and typhoons is much more severe, environment specialists said.
Four persons, including a civic engineer, have been booked for allegedly resorting to land fill and destroying mangroves in Bhayander…
