Gear up activities to protect Sundarbans

Bangladeshi High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali yesterday stressed on gearing up activities of Dhaka-New Delhi Joint Working Group (JWG) for conservation of the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest shared by the two neighbouring countries.

“It is critical.... for both the countries that we put our efforts together to protect the overall ecosystems of the Sundarbans,” Muazzem Ali said at the launch of “Vision Document” of the Bangladesh-India Sundarbans Region Cooperative Initiative at a meeting organised by Observer Research Foundation (ORF), a New Delhi-based think-tank.

The envoy said regular interactions at the JWG level hold the key to make the whole mechanism effective.

He said Bangladesh is determined to strive to double the number of wild tigers in the Sundarbans by 2022, says a press release from Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi.