Category: Bangladesh

The Sundarbans — the largest continuous mangrove forest on the planet that spans more than 10,000 sq km along the Bay of Bengal — is shrinking. Thanks to human encroachment and climate change, the forest has been losing almost 16 sq km of vegetation per year since 1991.  Earth.Org’s own analysis based on satellite imagery, shows that in Bangladesh, home to the largest swath of Sundarbans mangroves, the forest has lost 442 sq km of its vegetation in the last 28 years. 71% of the forested coastline is also retreating by as much as 200 metres a year due to coastline erosion.

Source: The World’s Largest Mangrove Forest Is Shrinking – Impakter

The Forest Department has planned to monitor the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a Unesco world heritage site, with drones to check crimes like poaching of tiger and deer.

Source: Checking Crimes in Sundarbans: Govt plans to fly drones

The Forest Department has  planned  to monitor the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a Unesco world heritage site, with drones to check crimes like poaching of tigers and deer. The department also considers erecting net-fence around the forest to prevent the…

Source: Plan underway to monitor Sundarbans with drones

The High Court yesterday observed that the Sundarbans is the lungs of Bangladesh like the Amazon forest is the lungs of the whole world.

Source: Sundarbans is lungs of Bangladesh

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)’s 21-member World Heritage Committee…

Source: Bangladesh- Sundarbans escapes relegation to be ‘world heritage in danger’

Three coal plants that threaten the Sundarbans tiger habitat were removed from a draft text, while Unesco members declined to list the site as ‘in danger’…

Source: China scrubs its own coal projects from ‘world heritage in danger’ decision

The World Heritage Centre of UNESCO has declared largest mangrove forest on earth, the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, as a ‘World Heritage in Danger’ site.

Source: UNESCO labels Sundarbans of Bangladesh ‘World Heritage in Danger’

Govt gives green light to 5 cement factories within forest’s ecologically critical area. Unesco heritage body meets in Baku today to decide fate…

Source: Sundarbans heritage site status in danger

The government’s decision to set-up a coal-fired power plant at Rampal goes against the constitution, National Committee for Saving the Sundarbans (NCSS) President Sultana Kamal said on Friday. “Although the constitution says that every decision will be made according to the people’s…

Source: Rampal project anti-constitutional: Sultana Kamal

The 2019 nominees for UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites are out

Source: The 2019 nominees for UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites are out

TIB calls for a halt to Rampal power, similar projects in the area…

Source: TIB concerned as Sundarbans set to be declared ‘World Heritage in Danger’

Sundarbans on list of ‘natural sites in danger’ as Bangladesh has continued implementing a coal-fired power plant project near forest.

Source: Sundarbans on List of ‘Natural Sites in Danger’ | NewsGram

The World Heritage Centre of Unesco has declared largest mangrove forest on earth, the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, as a “World Heritage in Danger” site.

Source: Unesco labels Sundarbans ‘World Heritage in Danger’

Four people accused of poaching threatened Bengal tigers were shot dead by Bangladesh police on Wednesday during a gunfight in a mangrove forest, officials said. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) police challenged armed men on a boat in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, spokesman Mizanur…

Source: Four poachers shot dead in Bangladesh mangrove gunfight

Get off the beaten path in the Bangladeshi Sundarbans.

Source: Explore the world’s largest mangrove forest