Mangrove Army: How Sundarbans’ ‘tiger widows’ are protecting the forest, one sapling a time
The group that is now called the ‘Mangrove Army’ was formed in 2009, after cyclone Aila devastated the Sundarbans, by Umashankar Mondal, a government schoolteacher in West Bengal.
Hindustan Times1 source1 min readFiled October 13, 2026