Effect of global warming on

Suderban
By
Vinay Sengar
10mba095
 Introduction
• Sunderban Islands situated both in India
(eastern part, in West Bengal State) and
Bangladesh are the part of world’s largest
delta formed by three rivers- Ganga,
Brahmaputra (India) and
Meghna(Bangladesh).
• The Sundarban is the largest single block of
tidal forest in the world. The name
Sundarban can be literally translated as
"beautiful jungle" or "beautiful forest" in
the Bengali language (Sundar, "beautiful"
and ban, "forest" or "jungle"). The name
may have been derived from the Sundari
trees that are found in Sundarbans in large
numbers.
Effect of Global Warming
• The effect of SLR on the Sunderbans Islands is
taking place at a faster rate than redicted earlier.
• According to Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India) by
2020, 70,000 inhabitants of sunderbans will
become climate refugee.
• According to Dr. Harza - “ the rate of relative SLR is
presently approaching 3.14 mm per year near
Sagar Island and this could increase to 3.5 mm per
year over the next few decades due to global
warming”.
Effect of Global Warming
• Risks of disappearance of world’s
largest ‘Mangrove Forest’.
• According to the World Wildlife
Fund(WWF) world’s largest tiger
population could disappear by the end
of this century as rising sea levels in
Sunderbans along the coast of India
and Bangladesh.
• Wide scale reclamation, deforestation
and unsustainable resource
exploitation have produced changes in
the physical and biological dynamics
of the coastal system.
Effect of Global Warming
• The island ‘Sagar’ itself has registered a net loss of30 square
kilometres of area over the past 30 years.
• The area and its people are now increasingly vulnerable, there is no
mainland to merge into and they will acquire refugee status once
their homes are washed out.
• Despite climate change threats to this ecologically Frag Kolkata, the
second largest megalopolis of India, (based on Population Data,
Census of India 2001)
• Which is located just few kilometres away from Indian Sunder ban
islands will experience a massive centre for environmental refugees
in the years to come.
• It will create more environmental pollutions, health hazards and
unemployment among rural population.ile niche, population growth
is unchecked
Recent Climate Changes
• Delay in monsoon season
• Change in local weather- rainfall has increased
considerably and has become more erratic.
• Frequent occurrence of storm surges and
coastal flooding.
Impacts on people

• Farmers are growing weather resistant crops to supplement

their food supply.
• Intrusion of saline water into agricultural which has
forced farmers to search new lands.
• It has considerably affected the food security of the people of
Sunderbans.
• People are deprived of the basic amenities of life – safe
drinking water, shelter and food.
• Absence of proper market linkages to sell the
agricultural goods
Solutions implemented by Government
• Funds allocated for the construction of embankments.
• Primary health services are in operation for the climate change
victims.
• Promoting the growth of shrimp cultivation and agro-forestry to
provide alternate livelihoods to the environmental refugees.
• Some rehabilitation programmes are formulated to provide shelter
to the victims but they are yet to Implement.
Conclution
• It is really very disheartening to imagine that Sunderbans
which means beautiful forest could be gone this century along
with its tiger if proper planning is not done.
• There need to curve out more appropriate region-specific
plan for this particular region
Thank you…