{"id":2900,"date":"2014-12-12T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:25:52","slug":"major-oil-threatens-india-and-bangladesh-sunderbans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"Major Oil Threatens India and Bangladesh Sunderbans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/1138584-major-oil-threatens-india-and-bangladesh-sunderbans\/\">Major Oil Threatens India and Bangladesh Sunderbans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Nearly 350 tonne of oil spilled into the Sela river of the Sunderbans on Tuesday after an oil tanker collided with an empty cargo vessel in the Bangaldesh side of the mangrove forests.\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #c51d1d; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/indiasendangered.com\/sundarban-tigers-closely-related-to-tigers-from-central-india\/\">The spill may cross over to the Indian side of the Sunderbans<\/a>, and cause serious damage to the ecosystem which is home to Royal Bengal Tigers, Olive Ridley turtles, Ganges Dolphins and other species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Sunderbans is a World Heritage site and world\u2019s largest mangrove forest. It is also the only mangrove ecosystem where tigers exist. Being the season of migration, many migratory birds from distant places like Siberia have come to these mangroves for wintering. Environment activists warn of a massive ecological disaster resulting from the spill, particularly in Mechua and Baghamara in the southernmost parts of the Sunderban delta where individual rivers meet the sea.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 20px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 24px; color: #000000; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-transform: none; text-align: left; padding: 0px 0px 11px 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Spreading Distaster<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Latest report informs that the oil spill has spread over an estimated 80 square Kilometer area in the Bangladesh side of the Sunderbans. The site, near Mongla port, is about 100km from the Kolkata port and given\u00a0 the crisscrossing way the tributaries and streams are distributed here, it can easily spread to a wider area including part of the forest in India and jeopardizing the lives of a large number of species. The Sunderban forest is a contiguous and fragile ecosystem spread over 26,000 square Kilometer in both countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The biggest risk is damage to the ecologically sensitive coral reef area in St. Martin\u2019s island and also health risks to the river dolphins. The accident took place in one of the three dolphin sanctuaries in the area, which is a no-go zone for vessels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22px; color: #000000; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Oil Threatens India and Bangladesh Sunderbans. Nearly 350 tonne of oil spilled into the Sela river of the Sunderbans on Tuesday after an oil tanker collided with an empty cargo vessel in the Bangaldesh side of the mangrove forests.\u00a0The spill may cross over to the Indian side of the Sunderbans, and cause serious damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[51,1867,1523],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-bangladesh","tag-environmental-disaster","tag-oil-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}