Cyclone Aila's death toll has risen to more than 250. The cyclone has also devastated the ecologically vulnerable zone of the Sunderbans Delta in West Bengal. Days after the calamity, most parts of Sunderbans still remain inaccessible. Dhamakhali village in the Sunderbans Seltais a picture of complete devastation and whatever remains of it, isn't accessible by land any more.
Victims complained that no relief and food packets had reached them.
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It is home to over 200 tigers, crocodiles and endangered wildlife.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/aila-hits-sunderbans-10-tiger-camps-submerged/93533-3.html
A satellite image also shows how the Gangotri glacier has shrunk.
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In Sundarbans over 5000 people already having lost their land to sea.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/climate-change-is-a-huge-threat-warn-scientists/87573-11.html
Experts say tigers are migrating northwards in large numbers.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/tigers-escape-sunderbans-due-to-rising-sea-levels/50918-3.html
Sagar island is the world's largest climate change refugee colony.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/climate-change-refugees-take-refuge-in-sunderbans/50772-11.html
With rising water levels, their villages and mangroves are set to vanish.
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/50651/global-warming-hits-honeycollectors-in-sunderbans.html
Global warming has resulted in a rise in the sea level in Sunderbans.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/locals-in-sunderbans-turn-climate-refugees/50500-3.html
Rising water levels have eroded, by some accounts, 40-50 pc of the landmass on the Ghoramara island in Sundarbans.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/global-warming-sunderbans-start-sinking/38006-3.html
Global warming is causing the steady shrinking of the mangroves of Sunderbans, say wildlife experts.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/global-warming-hits-sunderbans/34825-11.html
A love story set in a tiger reserve is being made into a film, in a rare celluloid adaptation of Indian novel.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/bollywood-reaches-the-sunderbans/20734-8.html
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