Staff Reporter :
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party [BNP] has formed a seven-member committee to investigate the disaster in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, due to oil spillage from a sunken tanker in the Shela River.
The committee will assess the extent of damage of bio-diversity in the world’s largest mangrove forest caused by the tanker capsize and also investigate if anyone was involved in the incident intentionally, sources said.
BNP has formed the probe body at a time when
Voicing grave concern over the recent oil spill in the Sundarbans, WildTeam, a nature conservation organisation based in Bangladesh, has urged the authorities concerned to prepare a baseline report on the immediate impact which would help assess the ecosystem recovery in the long term.
“We hope that the concerned authorities will prepare a baseline report on the immediate impact based on water quality on the impacted zone, spatio-temporal spread of oil, livelihood and health issues of the local people,” said a WildTeam press release on Saturday.
“The Sundarbans is not only a world heritage site, it’s also a Ramsar site. Tigers not only swim in this wetland but also sometimes supplement their diet of land prey with aquatic animals like crabs.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party [BNP] has formed a seven-member committee to investigate the disaster in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, due to oil spillage from a sunken tanker in the Shela River.
The committee will assess the extent of damage of bio-diversity in the world’s largest mangrove forest caused by the tanker capsize and also investigate if anyone was involved in the incident intentionally, sources said.
BNP has formed the probe body at a time when
Voicing grave concern over the recent oil spill in the Sundarbans, WildTeam, a nature conservation organisation based in Bangladesh, has urged the authorities concerned to prepare a baseline report on the immediate impact which would help assess the ecosystem recovery in the long term.
“We hope that the concerned authorities will prepare a baseline report on the immediate impact based on water quality on the impacted zone, spatio-temporal spread of oil, livelihood and health issues of the local people,” said a WildTeam press release on Saturday.
“The Sundarbans is not only a world heritage site, it’s also a Ramsar site. Tigers not only swim in this wetland but also sometimes supplement their diet of land prey with aquatic animals like crabs.
