A WWF Climate Witness film: The Sundarbans Delta in India and Bangladesh will be greatly impacted by climate change. Rising sea level and increased severe weather will destroy people's homes and co...
A WWF Climate Witness film: The Sundarbans Delta in India and Bangladesh will be greatly impacted by climate change. Rising sea level and increased severe weather will destroy people's homes and communitites.
CREDITS
Concept: WWF-India Climate Change and Energy Programme. Dr Prakash Rao & Samrat Sengupta
Visualisation, Scripting & Narration: V. V. Sundar
Camera: A. Roy
Editor: A. Dey
Production Assistant & Translation: Debu & K. Banerjee
This film would not have been possible without the support of: Ravi Singh, CEO, WWF-India; Col. Shakti Banerjee & Team, WWF-West Bengal; Prof. Sugato Hazra, Dept. of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University; Dr. Abhijit Mitra, Dept. of Marine Science, Calcutta University; P. Sanyal. Add. Principal Chief Wildlife Warden; A. K. Raha (IFS), Director, Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve; Tushar Kanti Haldar, Composer & Singer; And most important of all, the people of the Sundarban Islands!
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1mm/ year of sea level rise seems very little for resulting in such dramatic changes; more storms, and rivers more prone to flooding/surging [and to dwindling during dry times?] could lead to faster changes, it seems to me. Also wonder re more salinity: is it "just" higher sea; or maybe indeed reduced dry season flows. I was in Bangladesh Sundarbans in Oct; walked on a new island that was mostly sandy a decade ago, now has dense mangrove forest. So, a complex picture, and overall deterioration.
we live in the city and think and hear about global warming but we don experience it or see it, the poeple who does see it r these kind of ppl and live through it ,
This is really, really excellent, high-quality work! I love the interweaving of scientists' and villagers' voices and the beautiful song. I want to show it to my students. But... one problem... my students speak a "non-standard" dialect of English, with a different accent from the speakers in the video. Due to limited life experience they struggle to understand "standard" English and unfamiliar (to them) accents. So...Would it be possible to subtitle the whole video? No disrespect intended!
theflangemuffin , u r wrong. This is India. This is the state of West Bengal in Eastern India. Sundarban is spread over in West Bengal and Bangladesh. This movie is made on West Bengal.
Oh, sorry :S, its just so many people make these mistakes, now i am! argh well, at least we both know somethings gotta be done about the rising waters, or all of it'll be lost.
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Also wonder re more salinity: is it "just" higher sea; or maybe indeed reduced dry season flows.
I was in Bangladesh Sundarbans in Oct; walked on a new island that was mostly sandy a decade ago, now has dense mangrove forest. So, a complex picture, and overall deterioration.
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