2013 37COM 8E - Adoption of retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value 2011 35COM 7B.11 - The Sundarbans (Bangladesh) (N 798) 2009 33COM 7B.12 - The Sundarbans (Bangladesh) (N 798) 2008 ...

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 ...

A group of scholars from the University of Calcutta recently visited a village in the Sundarbans in a bid to save a language that is on the verge of extinction. They went to a settlement called ...

In the heart of the Sundarbans, where diverse wildlife roam freely, a silent crisis is unfolding a disturbing surge in illegal deer poaching is sweeping across the world’s largest mangrove forest and ...

Sundari tram amader, Sundarban (Our beautiful trams, our Sundarban). As Swarna Chitrakar sings about crouching tigers and trundling trams at the Esplanade tram terminus in Kolkata, she unrolls the ...

The Bengal region's Sundarbans, nourished by the Gangetic plains, is not just a refuge for tigers but a home for sprawling mangroves as well. Let's travel through India's ten largest forests ...

The Sundarbans is a cluster of low-lying islands in the Bay of Bengal, spread across the coast of India and Bangladesh.It holds the world's largest mangrove forest with an area of about 10,000 sq ...

The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is adjacent to the ...