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    As tides rise, Indian villagers find a friend in mangroves

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    Date
    November 28, 2018
    Author
    Basu, Moushumi
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    Classification code
    ML20181128_B5
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    Pushpo Mandal still remembers the day, nine years ago, when Cyclone Aila struck and the slender creek at the southern edge of her village swelled into a watery monster.Tall tidal waves broke through the earth embankment, rushing into homes and fields, “gulping down everything that came their way”, recalled Mandal from Patharpara village on the coast of India’s West Bengal state. Patharpara, in the Gosaba block of South 24 Parganas district, near the border with Bangladesh, was among the many Sundarbans villages devastated by the ferocious 2009 storm. Yet while the memory still haunts them, villagers have learned lessons from the destruction – planting mangroves to reinforce the embankments that protect their homes and fields from tidal surges.
    Citation
    Basu, M. (2018, November 28). As tides rise, Indian villagers find a friend in mangroves. Malaya Business Insight, p. B5.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/4812
    Corporate Names
    University of Calcutta
    Personal Names
    Mandal, Pushpo Mandal, Santosh Mitra, Abhijit Mandal, Gopal Mandal, Arjun
    Geographic Names
    India
    Subject
    mangroves hurricanes storm surges embankments mangrove restoration mangrove conservation
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