EnvironmentTop-dying disease hits 39 per cent of the Sundarbans' sundari trees, study finds
A two-year CEGIS and Arannayk Foundation study finds 129.5 million of the forest's roughly 330 million sundari trees affected by top-dying, 20.24 million severely, with carbon uptake down 15 per cent and seedling density down about 71 per cent since 1986.