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This post in support of the #longmarch from #Dhaka to the #Sundarbans, protesting the 1320MW coal-fired power plant to come up at Rampal, just outside the #mangrove forest home to the tiger, six kinds of dolphins, crocodiles, the endemic masked finfoot, and on which hundreds of thousands of artisanal fishermen depend.

Other threatened species in the Sundarbans include two river dolphins and an endemic bird, the masked finfoot.

On the river and in the ponds we saw the finfoot, a bird with feet like a grebe and bill and tail like those of a darter, but, like so many South American birds, with no close affiliations among other species.