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Just 28 centimeters of sea level rise will eliminate 96% of remaining habitat for Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans mangroves of India and Bangladesh, likely reducing the breeding population to less than 20 individuals a new WWF study shows. In other words, essentially dooming the current population of 250-400 to extinction. And remember that even under optimistic sea level rise projections, by 2100 some 50cm is likely. So what to do about it?
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