India’s river linking project puts Sunderbans in peril
Unlike Steinbeck’s defamed ‘salt-water-eating bushes’ of the Sea of Cortez, the Sunderbans is an excellent forest treasure for Bangladesh, India’s West Bengal, and the rest of the world. In 1997, UNESCO awarded the Sunderbans the accolade ‘A World Heritage Site,’ with the obvious implication that everything should be done to preserve this incredible...