Pakhirala, Oct 30 Schoolchildren in Sunderbans area will learn about tiger conservation and cascade the experiences to their elders through an ambitious project that has been started from the heart of the world’s largest mangrove, also home of the Royal Bengal Tiger.
Two fully-equipped edutainment boats carrying a projector, sound system, generators, library, conservation-related movies and wildlife photographs were launched yesterday from here in the Sunderbans, which is crisis-crossed by innumerable rivers and canals.
, Spreading awareness among the children would also help curb poaching, illegal felling of trees and other such activities in the jungles, Sahgal, whose organisation has associated with telecom company Aircel’s ‘Save the Tiger’ project.
The Sunderbans, world’s largest mangrove forest in the Ganges delta spread over India and Bangladesh, has a total area of about 9,630 sq km on the Indian side, of which the Reserve Forest occupies nearly 4,260 sq km, according to data provided by West Bengal Forest Department.
At present, out of 108 islands of the Sundarban region in India, 54 are inhabited, it said.
