Up to 15% of Sundarbans Mangroves Losing Resilience to Cyclones, Climate Change and Human Pressure, Study Finds
The Sundarbans, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site spanning India and Bangladesh, is seeing a marked decline in its ability to recover from environmental stress like climate driven and anthropogenic disturbances, a new study has found. Researchers estimate that around 10-15 per cent of the forest, roughly 610 to…