Friday, January 11, 2013

Bangladesh: Bengali Forest Could Perish Along With Bengal Tiger Because Of Climate Change

RedOrbit: A new report by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) states that human development and global temperature rise is threatening one of the world's most precious forest systems. The Bengali Forest is disappearing at a record pace and taking along with it, species that may be found nowhere else on Earth. Rapid deterioration of the mangrove forests in the Sundarbans has resulted in as much as 650 feet of coast disappearing in a single year. The report, published in today's issue of Remote Sensing,...

URL: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112762256/bengal-tiger-forest-threatened-climate-011113/
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