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Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity. Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and, innovative method being employed to prevent tigers from entering Sunderbans’ village – solar lights.

People in the Sundarbans are continually exposed to hazards that have become everyday and usual to them – snake-bites and tiger attacks are not uncommon threats for people inhabiting these secluded mangroves. With Sundarban tigers capable of swimming great distances and at speeds of around 16km/hr, living on an island is no protection from a tiger. Photo Gallery 12 incidents per year!

WWF-India has been setting up solar street lights in villages along the forest edge, which seems to discourage tigers and other wildlife from straying into these areas. Not a single tiger straying incidence has been reported from locations where solar lights have been installed!

Mais informações:

WWF- Índia / EarthHour

The Epoch Times

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Dr Osman Benchikh *. Especialista Programa Responsável Energética e Energias Renováveis. Coordenador do projeto RENFORUS.
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