All isn’t well in Sundarbans, noted the Calcutta High Court recently, expressing dismay at the environmental neglect of West Bengal’s famous mangrove forests.
Well, there is some good news, too. A ‘mangrove restoration technology’, developed with support from the Department of Biotechnology, has been successfully demonstrated in a 5-acre area. “The restored mangrove successfully survived cyclone Amphan,” notes a recent annual report of the department. Based on this success, a new project has been sanctioned to extend the effort to another 100 acres, it says.
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