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Imagine a world where dense mangrove forests meet churning tides, and the air hangs heavy with salt and mystery. In this ...
Sujit is Anil da’s nephew, a licensed guide of the STR, and an avid birdwatcher with deep knowledge about Sundarbans’ birds. Boat jam after a tiger sighting, Sundarban Tiger Reserve.
KOLKATA: The first Sundarbans bird festival kicked off in the tiger reserve area on Tuesday. A senior forester said that the event would be conducted in both the tiger reserve and divisional ...
Kolkata: The state forest department will organise the second edition of Sundarbans Bird Festival in 2024.The festival is likely to be held from January 17 to 20 across the tiger reserve and South ...
During the third bird festival in the Indian Sundarbans, over 32,000 birds of 154 species were sighted, representing a ...
Sundarbans: Nature's bioshield. 18 November 2014. ... Wildllife thrive in this unique and delicately balanced ecosystem and it is home to large numbers of mammals, birds and fish.
Hemis sits in the high-altitude region of Ladakh in India’s far north. It’s one of the last great strongholds of the elusive ...
The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies on the delta of the Ganges, ... 210 white fishes, 24 shrimps, 14 crabs and 43 mollusks species. The ...
I mean, I don’t think there is a bird on this planet I find unattractive, and our boat spotted some 70 different species, and all six boats accounted for over 130 species and nearly 9,000 ...
A publication by Zoological Survey of India, (ZSI) in 2021, had recorded 428 bird species in the Sundarbans which is one-third of all the avian species found in the country.
Most struggle on far less than $1 a day. With 5 million people on the Indian side and 8 million in Bangladesh, the Sundarbans population is far greater than any of the small island nations that ...
The intense light and noise from ships and launches at night is having a detrimental effect on the life cycle of animals and birds in the Sundarbans. In 1977, the Sundarbans mangrove forest was ...