Sunday 1 January 2017

Eco-tourism represents a threat to the Sundarban

Belinda Wright, executive director of the Wildlife maintenance humanity of India (WPSI), requires abandon the idea of eco-tourism in the Sundarban parks. "The large-scale magnificence tourism in the Sundarbans has  been a complete disaster Ultimately, this will lead to the immigration of tigers in Bangladesh." - Belinda Wright said.
Bengal government has proposed further enlargement of eco-tourism in the parks Sundaeban - the largest mangrove forest in the world, the endangered Royal Bengal tiger at home. Sundarbans is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it includes part of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
Most of the tourist activity is limited buffer zones of the reserve (consisting of mangrove forests), and the main areas (commonly more than 1300 SQ. Km) are biodiversity and identified as not operational zone.

Wright stressed that eco- tourism initiatives should be "strictly limited" buffer zones. "Sundarbans -. A very, very frail habitat huge number of tourists are not allowed in the main area of the park", - he explained Wright. In addition, the environmentalist explained that the constantly changing weather conditions pose a serious risk to the expansion of eco-tourism. "Sundarbans has a very dynamic weather system, and this alone would have to be a warning to introduce tourism more widely here ... it's a dangerous place," - said Wright.

The in danger of extinction species that live in the Sundarbans, a lot. Among them, Bengal tigers, estuarine crocodiles, north turtles, turtle Ridley, Gangetic dolphin and king crabs.

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