Garjan trees with above-ground roots, Sundarban Tiger Reserve. Photo by Subhankar Banerjee, August 2019. As our boat slowly continued its way with no specific destination in mind, ...

Sundarbans literally means "beautiful forest," but as the novelist Amitav Ghosh writes, ... The shoreline is full of mangrove trees, putting their knobby roots into the tidal mudflats.

Imagine a world where dense mangrove forests meet churning tides, and the air hangs heavy with salt and mystery. In this ...

Sundari trees, after which the mangrove forest is named, are now on the brink of extinction in West Bengal due to excessive logging in the past for its high value wood and now with seawater rise.

Rising waters and illicit logging are killing the trees in the Sundarbans, the natural wall that protects the India-Bangladesh coast. Tidal surges now isolate parts of Sagar Island, south of ...

Half a decade on, he says the typical trees of the Sundarbans are on the brink of extinction, with top-dying disease where the uppermost parts are damaged first with loss of leaves, affecting the palm ...

Sundari tree, one of the most extensively found mangrove species in the Sundarbans, are disappearing for various diseases, including 'top-dying disease' which has killed 15 percent trees since the ...

Dhaka, Dec 5 (bdnews24.com)—The government will prohibit tree-felling in the Sundarbans for the next one year, an environment and forest ministry meeting decided Wednesday. Another decision ...

Bidhan Sishu Udyan celebrated World Environment Day by planting trees brought in from the Sundarbans on its campus. A total of 35 sundari trees and 10 kakra trees, brought from the Sunderbans with ...

Sundarbans literally means "beautiful forest," but as the novelist Amitav Ghosh writes, ... The shoreline is full of mangrove trees, putting their knobby roots into the tidal mudflats.