People of the Delta and Climate Change
The 29the edition of the United Nation’s Conference of Parties on Environment (COP29) will begin next month. The countdown calls for different aspects of climate change to be discussed.
The 29the edition of the United Nation’s Conference of Parties on Environment (COP29) will begin next month. The countdown calls for different aspects of climate change to be discussed.
They want to convert her to Islam and use her to gain more votes for a political party in West Bengal’s upcoming elections. What follows ahead is a series of disturbing events and her troubles.
With their backs to the wall, the brave women of Sundarban don’t look for promises.
More than 14,516 households in Sundarbans can now breathe a sigh of relief and they are going to experience brighter evenings soon with the installation of solar lights.
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The officials have also been trying to establish the pattern of movements of these big cats. They lay traps with baits to capture the stray tigers.
The Wildlife Institute of India has identified Chamta as a forest block with a notably low density of the tiger population. However, the problem of relocation is rooted in the fact that the “optimum carrying capacity” of a forest is not a static concept. Therefore, relocating tigers to a forest that is different from where they came is a fraught proposition.
Rainfall-runoff modelling has been undertaken to get an overview of the annual fresh water availability through surface run off
All these are combining to make the Sundarbans the most vulnerable region on the planet at the time of global warming.
Natural disasters always result in more human-tiger conflicts in this region.
