It”s not just unauthorized chopping that threatens the Sunderbans mangroves. The forest could be faced with a new enemy that has been slowly eating into the trees on the edge of the water, reducing them to charred pulps of waste vegetation. Hundreds of black insects, shaped like caterpillars, have been raiding the mangroves for the last three months, causing serious damage to the plants…. Read Full Article
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