Sundarbans: The fragile ecology of the Sundarbans delta, which is home to four million people and the Royal Bengal Tiger, is now facing a fresh threat from large-scale construction of concrete embankments all over the islands, environmentalists has warned. Doubting the feasibility of these embankments as coastal erosion is constantly reshaping the islands, WWF's Anurag Danda said the engineering intervention will prove detrimental to the survival of unique flora and fauna of the UNESCO World Heritage site. The archipelago of over 100 islands, a three-hour drive from Kolkata, is a complex network of streams, rivers, tidal creeks and channels. Spread over an area of 9,630...
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