Thursday 19 June 2014

Visit to Mangrove Interpretation Centre

Team CMD has visited Sajnekhali, Sundarban, West Bengal on 14th June 2014. There was huge humidity on that day. We took several halt during our six hours journey. The Basanti, Sundarban is connected to the mainland Kolkata by road. After that, we have to cross the Bidhyadhari River to reach Gosaba. Another part of Bidhyadhari River have to cross from Gosaba to reach Sajnekhali. This small island is mounted by high rise metal net to protect from tiger. Tiger can enter that place any time. Our basic notion is to visit to the Mangrove Interpretation Centre (MIC).

We reached Sajnekhali around 13.00 on the same day. The tour was informal, so we took permission from the Office to enter the MIC. We enter inside MIC and documented the exhibits, diorama and panels by capturing on camera. Basically a project is going to be start soon entitled National Biodiversity Museum in Hyderabad, this documentation will be applied on that project. The area was small and we took just forty five minutes to cover the whole area. The care taker of the MIC told us he saw a tiger nearby lake on 21st may’14.

After that we took lunch at nearby guest house of Forest Department, Govt. of West Bengal. We reached the mainland around 17.00 and reached Kolkata around 20.00.


MIC main building

Maps of Sundarbans

Mr. Manash Bagchi (extreme left), me and others while crossing the river.

The tour has governed by Mr. Manash Bagchi, CRTL.