I had recently written a post about one of my trips to Sundarban which is also known as Mangrove Forest the Sundarbans, a natural forest mostly in Bangladesh but a small part of it in India too.
Let’s try to understand what actually mangroves stand for. Technically speaking mangroves are a group of trees and shrubs that live and grow in areas with low-oxygen soil in the coastal intertidal zone where slow-moving waters allow fine sediments to accumulate. We have heard about such forests in certain parts of the world but Sundarban is the largest mangrove forest of its kind anywhere in the world.
My post this time is not about beauty and travel experience but my concern on environmental issues the forest is facing after a ship carrying a large amount of coal sank in the nearby area. Incidentally this is third such case in within a short period of last two years in this particular area. Bangladesh, as many of you might be aware has common boundaries with India so any environmental changes make difference on each other’s climate.
The fact is it is environmental changes are not in this particular area but all along our 7500 km long coastal area with 12 major and more than 200 smaller harbors continuously posing risk by disposing waste and by way of leaked oil in sea. Besides harbors, all large petro-refineries and chemical plants located in the coastal areas adding to problem beyond human control by disposing waste directly into the sea.
As if that was not enough the fact that there are at least 190 major towns and cities situated at the coastal areas discharge almost 55 billion liters of garbage into the sea directly without any treatment is source of major environment related problem effecting people living in coastal areas. If we take into account the waste discharged in sea by hotels and resorts located at beaches the situation is grave and needs our immediate attention.
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indeed oceanic/water pollution is becoming worse and worse every day. the local people, the business people and the government/authorities all are at fault. The local people contribute to the littering of the oceans and the do not report when they see other people doing it. Only when they or they loved ones are directly or immediately affected then will they begin to call in to news stations to make a report. Business people take the oceans for their waste basket dumping oil, garbage and any and everything in the waters. The government though they may implement laws or policies for the protection of the ocean they fail to enforce these laws or policies. Thus the perpetrators continue with their actions of destruction.