Spread over 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 square miles), the Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest and the core part of it is a UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site ©Munir Uz Zaman (AFP/File)
March 21st, 2016. Bangladesh on Monday banned boats from sailing through a key southwestern river after a ship loaded with coal capsized, threatening the sanctuaries of rare dolphins in the world’s largest mangrove forest.
The authorities imposed the ban after the ship sank in the Shela river on Saturday carrying over a thousand tonnes of coal, raising fears for two sanctuaries of endangered Irrawaddy and Ganges river dolphins and the delicate ecology of the Sundarbans forest.
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