Sundarbans

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What is it

Worlds largest mangrove forest

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Is it below sea level

Most of it is 5m below sea level

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what is population

4 million

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5 Opportunities

  • honey

  • building

  • fishing (shrimp)

  • Agriculture

  • Tourism (100,000/year)

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6 challenges

  • Sea level rise (18mm/year) (200m coast retreats each year)

  • Soil salinity

  • Exploitation of resources

  • Water availability

  • Cyclones (eg 2009 cyclone Aila destroyed 920,000 houses)

  • Tigers 22.7 ppl killed a yr on avg

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Mitigation

  • 30 trees per 0.01 reduces tsunami risk by 90%

  • created khas land

  • Infrastructure investment

  • Women are given jobs like basket making and sewing especially widows

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Adaptation

NGO’s building cyclone shelters

30,000 people have recieved agro training for better technique and salt resistant crops

Storage tanks for rainwater