Rocking spidery legs and surrounded by stinky mud and hordes of insects ready to take a bite, the red mangrove was a hard tree to love. But its irreplaceable role in our ecosystems made it a tree we ...
Unlike most of the bheries (shallow fish ponds) spread over the Minakhan block in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, the 12 bigha pond of Pintu Das in Chaital village is dotted with trees. Rows ...