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Fig. 8.13 Industrial activity along the Gujarat coast

Fig. 8.14 Satellite
imagery shows change in
mangrove cover between
2000 and 2007 at
Kantiyajal village of
Bharuch district, Gujarat

scienti c management. In this context, the case

study of Sundarbans is a classic example. The
region experiences three distinct categories of
salinity pro

Ecorestoration and plantation programmes are
taken up in these three sectors on the basis of
adaptation of mangrove oral species to salinity

which is highly species speci

fl

le. The western and central sectors
of Indian Sundarbans are gradually freshening,
while the central sector is experiencing a hike in
salinity due to total blockage of freshwater owing
to siltation of the Bidyadhari River (since the late

c; for example,

Heritiera fomes , Sonneratia apetala and Bru-

guiera sp. are planted after demarcating the hy-

posaline regions, whereas spp. are

better suited in hypersaline central sector. Nurs-
eries are raised accordingly by State Forest

Avicennia

fteenth century) in the upstream zone.