About 50 farmers from the Indian Sundarbans tested draft rules and business models for integrated mangrove aquaculture at a WorldFish and IWMI workshop in West Bengal.
Where the Bay of Bengal meets the Sundarbans mangroves, Kochikhali is home to deer, birds, butterflies and forests of golpata and gewa.
Trial plantings of baen (Avicennia) mangroves by the NGO CODEC in the Badarkhali channel and Rampura mouza of Chakaria, Cox's Bazar, are surviving well; experts say the near-vanished forest can return only if tidal flow, blocked by shrimp-farm embankments, is restored and three other barriers are re
OrganicKeora is one of the main trees of the Sundarbans, and research finds its sour fruit rich in polyphenols, flavonoids and minerals. The tree is also the mainstay of saline coastal afforestation.
EnvironmentOn 27 November 2025 the Asian Development Bank approved a $142.25 million equivalent loan to cut flood risk in Fuzhou and Yunxiao and restore estuary wetlands and mangroves used by migratory birds.
