TOMMY MIAH OPENS NEW SAVE THE TIGER CAMPAIGN
Edinburgh restaurateur Tommy Miah is helping save the extremely endangered Bengal Tiger by seeking international safeguards for the Sundarban, its traditional wild forest home straddling the India-Bangladesh border.
The campaign kicked off on Monday, March 21, at a full- to-capacity House of Commons reception hosted by Anne Main MP, chair of the all-party British-Bangladeshi Parliamentary Group.
Miss India was one of the celebrity guests in the Jubilee Room hearing how to encourage votes for the world’s largest Mangrove forest area to be listed as one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature.
“I was astounded by the wild beauty of the forest area,” Tommy said, “ and even more so by the great variety of animal and bird life.
“My recent visit to the Sundarban also made me worried that it, like the Amazon forests in South America, could become the target of developers and be lost to future genersations.”
One-third of the Sundarban is part of India with the greater part in Bangladesh. Basic protection measures are already enforced by both governments but Tommy Miah drew on his visit to stress the urgent, essential need for international recognition.
Voting facilities for the New 7 Wonders of Nature were available at the reception. It is hoped that guests will encourage friends, family and business contacts to follow their lead and vote to save the Royal Bengal Tiger by preserving its natural home.
The swampy Sundarban, stretching inland along 200 miles of the northwest Bay of Bengal shoreline, is not only a refuge for diminishing numbers of the Royal Bengal Tiger but home to an unrivalled multitude of rare varieties of animal, bird, marine and botanic life.
The many rivers and streams criss-crossing the area between the multiple mouths of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers in the south and the Meghna to the north teem with fish that provide a livelihood for thousands of fishermen. Visitors by boat are entranced by displays from at least four different types of dolphin, while flat agricultural lands on the inner Sundarban fringe produce much-needed food crops.
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