By IANS,
New Delhi: An India-Bangladesh joint forum will soon be established to take measures to check the impact of climate change on Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Thursday said.
“Sundarbans will be most effected by climate change and many new islands in the mangrove forest will be submerged. Sundarbans are spread in India and Bangladesh and bilateral measures need to be taken to save the ecosystem,” Ramesh told reporters here.
“The Sundarban ecosystem forum will come into existence in next two weeks. Both the countries will work jointly to take measures to save the most diverse ecosystem,” he said.
A Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans covers 9,630 sq km in India and Bangladesh. Home to a number of endangered species, including the Royal Bengal tigers, it is one of the worst climate change hotspots on the globe.