Sidr and the Soondarban- to me the impact of sidr on the south-eastern parts of the Soondarban is 'cosmetic' and not real as it was in 1988. Damage to trees are- uprooting, broken at mid-level of the trunks or canopy and wilting of leaves. Uprooted trees-plants to be left as they are. Broken trees are gone case. Trees that lost leaves are recovering fast. All sand and mud- flats are recovering too. Tiger pug marks, movement of deer, rhesus macaques busy feeding, fiddler crabs making spectacular 'chela-showing' dances, mudskippers busy feeding, migrants like Eurasian Curlew, Whimbrel, Shanks, Sandpipers, Golden Plovers, ruff and reeve, usually busy feeding kingfishers like Black-capped, white-collared, common, white-throated, brown-winged, and ruddy, Brahminy kite and white-bellied sea eagle hawking for fishes, crested serpent eagle, Shikra, crested goshawk and many bush-forest loving birds indicate they have been impacted least.
Soondarban is reovering in an unprecendent speed that even i have not visulaised before i had visited it and wrote an article in the science page of the daily prothom alo on the 25th november 2007. visited soondarban from 21st to 24th december 2007. bravo soondarban.
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