Blogposts tagged 'Sundarbans'

Mangrove planting on Sagar Island

Posted by tracy - 17 October 2007 at 3:23pm - 0 Comments

Tracy is on the Rainbow Warrior, which is in India to highlight the impacts of climate change and what we can do to stop it. You can follow all the tour updates on the Ban the Bulb blog, and we'll be posting tour highlights here.

Woman planting a mangorve sapling

We set off early for the southeast corner of Sagar Island, where the task today was to plant 8,000 mangrove seedlings along the shore to help hold back the advancing seas. This is an experimental plantation project started by Professor Sugata Hazra, head of oceanography at Jadhaupur University.

He says that the Sundarbans delta is already experiencing the worst of climate change. Sea levels are rising faster here than the global average and the intensity of cyclonic storms and monsoon rainfall has increased.

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I'm a climate celebrity - get me out of here

Posted by tracy - 16 October 2007 at 5:23pm - 0 Comments

From the Rainbow Warrior, which is in India to highlight the impacts of climate change and what we can do to stop it. You can follow all the tour updates on the Ban the Bulb blog, and we'll be posting tour highlights here.

I've never wanted to be a celebrity, always loved my anonymity, so being welcomed to Sagar Island by 12,000 people was a bit overwhelming.

We sailed from Kolkata at three in the morning so by noon we were well down the Hugli and approaching the Bay of Bengal. The "meeting", as it was described to us, to welcome the Rainbow Warrior to Sagar Island was due to start in the early afternoon and the Warrior was still a few hours away. We launched two inflatable boats to take us to the northern tip of the island and we would go the rest of the way by jeep to beat the ship to the Sagar Ganges beach.

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Swimming in Calcutta

Posted by tracy - 9 October 2007 at 3:53pm - 0 Comments

I'm in Calcutta! Wow, what a mad place - dodging traffic, choked pavements, goat herding in the city centre, streets filled with sleeping bodies at night, fantastic food, friendly people - it is a little overwhelming.

I'm here for the next month helping out the India office and I'll be joining the Rainbow Warrior when it arrives in Calcutta, or Kolkata as it is now known. We'll be sailing down the coast to look at the impacts of climate change and what can be done in India to stop it.

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