The seized items include 61,000 feet of deer traps, 90 bottles of pesticides, 700-kg of poisoned fish, 816-kg of crabs, 5,500 crab traps, 231 fishing nets, 22 sacks of dried fish, and 217-kg of ...
Locals said the abductions took place on Thursday when the fishermen were fishing in canals linked to the Mamundo and Malancha rivers.
Mud crabs—species of Scylla—are among the most important architects of Sundarbans creek ecosystems. Yet across large parts of the forest, these engineers are being removed at a pace and scale that the ...