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India and Bangladesh will sign an MoU within the next two months which will give them the right to conduct oceanic research in each other’s Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), repots PTI. National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Director Dr S W A Naqvi said the political atmosphere is just right to launch a major programme of this kind as he announced this. “Many countries in this region do not have the... »

The United Nations (UN) team of experts investigating the oil spill in the Sundarbans will make their findings public and submit a report to the Bangladesh government at the end of this month. “We will announce our findings through a press conference and submit a report to the government on December 31,” Amelia Walstrom, chief of the UN expert team, told reporters tuesday. She informed that the UN experts are... »

A UN team reached Mongla in Bagerhat this afternoon on its way to the Sundarbans to assess the extent of damage to the world’s largest mangrove forest due to the oil spillage. The international experts will visit the Sundarbans next morning and will support the ground work in coordination with the government and also conduct an assessment and advise on recovery and risk reduction measures during their two-day tour. About... »

A United Nations team of experts has suggested closing the Sundarbans rivers to commercial traffic in the wake of the recent capsize of a tanker that spilled oil in the Shela River. It has made the suggestion in its preliminary report presented after Bangladesh government-UN joint inspection of the affected areas in the world’s largest mangrove forest.. UN team leader Emilia Wahlstrom presented the report at a press conference in... »

The BNP has formed a seven-member probe body over the incident of the huge oil spill in Sundarban’s Sela river, said a press release. The committee members are– BNP Vice-Chairman Major (retd) Mohammad Hafizuddin Ahmed, Khulna divisional unit Assistant Organising Secretary Nazrul Islam Manju,Khulna city Mayor Moniruzzaman Moni,Bagherhat district unit President Abdus Salam, Khulna district unit General Secretary Advocate Shafiqul Islam Mona, Chairman of Save the Sundarbans Dr Sheikh Faridul... »

The United Nations said on Thursday it has sent a team of international experts to Bangladesh to help clean up the world’s largest mangrove forest, more than a week after it was hit by a huge oil spill. Thousands of litres of oil have spilt into the protected Sundarbans mangrove area, home to rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins, after a tanker collided with another vessel last Tuesday. A team from... »

Bangladesh launched an intensified manual campaign to clean up seepage following a huge oil spill in 34,000 hectares at the Sunderbans that threatened the world’s largest mangrove forest. The manual cleanup campaign came as authorities on India’s eastern coast are on alert with Additional Director of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve Pradeep Vyas saying “We are taking all precautionary measures”. Officials and witnesses said the forest department engaged nearly 100 boats to... »

Environmental authorities in India are on alert after thousands of litres of oil spilled into a nature reserve in neighbouring Bangladesh. Conservation chief Pradeep Vyas said “precautions” were being taken in West Bengal’s coastal region. Oil leaked into waterways in the Sundarbans area after a collision involving a tanker three days ago. Officials say it is already harming the region’s wildlife, which includes two endangered dolphin species. “We are taking... »

Oil spill from the sunken tanker in the Sundarbans has affected seven young crocodiles at the Karamjal Wildlife Reproduction Centre. Environmental experts and forest officials had feared negative effects after a tanker carrying 350,000 litres of furnace sank in the Shela River on Tuesday. Oil spread to 34,000 hectares in three days, causing seven four-month-old crocodiles to fall sick, the officials said. Sore mouths were spotted in them in salt... »

The mangrove delta is home of this increasingly endangered species that is found in discontinuous subpopulations near sea coasts and in estuaries and rivers in parts of the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia. The Chandpai range in southern Sundarbans is where they are mostly found — which is why the area along with two others in the Sundarbans was declared as Dolphin Reserve in 2011. But it is near... »