Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbans

Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbans

Source: mongabay

9/1/2023

Credit: Mohshin Ul Hakim

According to the Bangladesh Forest Department, the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh shelters about 210 species of white fish, 24 species of shrimp, 14 species of crabs, 43 species of mollusks and one species of lobster.

About 1.7 million locals living adjacent to the mangrove forest directly or indirectly depend on forest resources, including fish and crabs, for their livelihood due to the region’s growing unemployment rate.

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