Deforestation is now synonymous with modern
development. Uncontrolled and exponentially growing population implies more
mouths to feed, and cutting the branch that holds us up is modern reality.
Natural resources are becoming scarcer.
Once, Sunderbans nurtured a vast mangrove which extended up to modern
Kolkata. Urbanisation stretched its devastating tentacles over the ecosystem
and now, Sunderbans is just a sample of a mangrove forest. The population of
this area feeds on income from th