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The 'Real Heroes Of India' Who Provide Healthcare To India's Remote Islands
In the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest where access to healthcare is one of the most pressing problems, one group has been operating boat clinics and working relentlessly for over 40 years to ensure that people are not deprived of med
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President Biden's 'Salute' To PM Modi At G20, Day After Warm Handshake
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden exchanged greetings when they met during a visit to a mangrove forest in Bali on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
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Viral Tweets Explain Importance Of Mangroves In Protecting Land From Natural Disaster
Mangroves help prevent flooding and work as a wall of defence, especially in coastal areas.
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World Wetlands Day 2021: What Are Wetlands, Theme And Significance
World Wetlands Day 2021: The theme for World Wetlands Day this year is 'Wetlands and Water'. It emphasizes the importance of wetlands as a "source of freshwater and encourages action to restore them and stop their loss". Wetlands include mangroves and marshes, peatlands, rivers, lakes and other water bodies, deltas, floodplains and swamps in forest...
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Tigers At Sundarbans In Bengal Find Lockdown Grrreat
With humans in West Bengal under coronavirus lockdown, tigers in the Sundarbans mangrove forest are coming out to play, with park rangers on Thursday reporting a jump in sightings of the big cats.
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Search On For Missing People In Australia's Crocodile-Infested Waters
An asylum-seeker boat has reached Australia for the first time in almost four years, the government said Monday, with many of those on board the Vietnamese vessel fleeing into mangrove rainforest after it ran aground in crocodile-infested waters.
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Baby Crocodiles Emerge From Eggs In Odisha's Bhitarkanika National Park
Hatchlings of estuarine crocodiles have started emerging from the eggs and making their way to various water bodies inside the Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha, a senior forest official has said.
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Decomposed Body With Severed Head Is Of Missing Latvian Woman: DNA Test
After a frantic search by her family and the police, the Latvian tourist who had gone missing for over a month from an Ayurvedic centre in Kerala, has been traced. The DNA samples of Latvian tourist have reportedly matched those of a body found near a mangrove forest at Thiruvallam. The highly decomposed body was found hanging upside down from a tr...
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Sundarbans Has 182 Tigers, Pollution A Major Concern: Report
The Sundarbans, the world's largest contiguous mangrove forest, has 182 tigers -- 106 in Bangladesh and around 76 in India, according to the first ever modern survey jointly conducted by the two countries across a 6,724 sq km area.
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How Sundarbans Is Tackling Man-Animal Conflict
For over a decade now, 40-year-old Ali Mondal has stayed away from the mangrove forest in the Sundarbans, where he would venture every day to make his living.
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Sundarbans, World's Largest Mangrove Forest, to Become a District in 2016
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, will become a separate district next year.
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10 Fishermen Arrested for Illegal Fishing in Odisha's Bhitarkanika National Park
Ten fishermen have been taken into custody by the Bhitarkanika National Park authorities in Odisha for illegal fishing activity in the core area of the Park, posing a danger to estuarine crocodiles and aquatic species.
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Bangladesh Discovers Only 100 Tigers in Famed Sundarbans
Bangladesh has only about 100 tigers living in the world's largest mangrove forest, far fewer of the endangered animals than previously thought, following a recent survey, a top forestry official said today.
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Blue Whales Spotted Off Maharashtra Coast After More Than 100 Years
Researchers have spotted a pair of blue whales along Sindhudurg coast in Maharashtra, the first such sighting along the state coastline in a century.
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Sunderbans Sea Level Rising at an 'Alarming' Rate Per Year: World Bank
The water level in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, is rising at an "alarming" level, endangering the habitation, a World Bank report has suggested.
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The 'Real Heroes Of India' Who Provide Healthcare To India's Remote Islands
In the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest where access to healthcare is one of the most pressing problems, one group has been operating boat clinics and working relentlessly for over 40 years to ensure that people are not deprived of med
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President Biden's 'Salute' To PM Modi At G20, Day After Warm Handshake
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden exchanged greetings when they met during a visit to a mangrove forest in Bali on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
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Viral Tweets Explain Importance Of Mangroves In Protecting Land From Natural Disaster
Mangroves help prevent flooding and work as a wall of defence, especially in coastal areas.
-
World Wetlands Day 2021: What Are Wetlands, Theme And Significance
World Wetlands Day 2021: The theme for World Wetlands Day this year is 'Wetlands and Water'. It emphasizes the importance of wetlands as a "source of freshwater and encourages action to restore them and stop their loss". Wetlands include mangroves and marshes, peatlands, rivers, lakes and other water bodies, deltas, floodplains and swamps in forest...
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Tigers At Sundarbans In Bengal Find Lockdown Grrreat
With humans in West Bengal under coronavirus lockdown, tigers in the Sundarbans mangrove forest are coming out to play, with park rangers on Thursday reporting a jump in sightings of the big cats.
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Search On For Missing People In Australia's Crocodile-Infested Waters
An asylum-seeker boat has reached Australia for the first time in almost four years, the government said Monday, with many of those on board the Vietnamese vessel fleeing into mangrove rainforest after it ran aground in crocodile-infested waters.
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Baby Crocodiles Emerge From Eggs In Odisha's Bhitarkanika National Park
Hatchlings of estuarine crocodiles have started emerging from the eggs and making their way to various water bodies inside the Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha, a senior forest official has said.
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Decomposed Body With Severed Head Is Of Missing Latvian Woman: DNA Test
After a frantic search by her family and the police, the Latvian tourist who had gone missing for over a month from an Ayurvedic centre in Kerala, has been traced. The DNA samples of Latvian tourist have reportedly matched those of a body found near a mangrove forest at Thiruvallam. The highly decomposed body was found hanging upside down from a tr...
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Sundarbans Has 182 Tigers, Pollution A Major Concern: Report
The Sundarbans, the world's largest contiguous mangrove forest, has 182 tigers -- 106 in Bangladesh and around 76 in India, according to the first ever modern survey jointly conducted by the two countries across a 6,724 sq km area.
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How Sundarbans Is Tackling Man-Animal Conflict
For over a decade now, 40-year-old Ali Mondal has stayed away from the mangrove forest in the Sundarbans, where he would venture every day to make his living.
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Sundarbans, World's Largest Mangrove Forest, to Become a District in 2016
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, will become a separate district next year.
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10 Fishermen Arrested for Illegal Fishing in Odisha's Bhitarkanika National Park
Ten fishermen have been taken into custody by the Bhitarkanika National Park authorities in Odisha for illegal fishing activity in the core area of the Park, posing a danger to estuarine crocodiles and aquatic species.
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Bangladesh Discovers Only 100 Tigers in Famed Sundarbans
Bangladesh has only about 100 tigers living in the world's largest mangrove forest, far fewer of the endangered animals than previously thought, following a recent survey, a top forestry official said today.
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Blue Whales Spotted Off Maharashtra Coast After More Than 100 Years
Researchers have spotted a pair of blue whales along Sindhudurg coast in Maharashtra, the first such sighting along the state coastline in a century.
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Sunderbans Sea Level Rising at an 'Alarming' Rate Per Year: World Bank
The water level in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, is rising at an "alarming" level, endangering the habitation, a World Bank report has suggested.
