The Sunderbans is the largest mangrove forest of the world. A lagre no of natural animals include the Bengal Tigers, snake, different kinds of alligator and a large no of birds live in the forest. The Sunderbans is surrounded by many river. The Sunderbans is the largest honey hunting place in the world. a large number of honey hunters gathered in the forest area every year to gather honey. Original article Read full article
Sunderbans
Among the tigers Cheetal, Wild Boar, Rhesus are some of the main species. Animals like crabs and fishes are eaten by Sunderbans tigers.
Sunderbans Mangrove is the safe house of globally threatened species like Royal Bengal Tiger and Fishing Cats are having effective protection in here.
The Sunderbans was originally measured (about 200 years ago) to be of about 16,700 sq km. Now it has dwindled to about 1/3 of the original size. Because of the partition of India, Bangladesh received about 2/3 of the forest; the rest is on the Indian side.
It is divided by 55 compartments and 9 blocks. The Sundarbans was declared as a Reserve Forest in 1875. About 32,400 hectares of the Sunderbans have been declared as 3 wildlife sanctuaries, and came under the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
In Bangla Ban means forest and and in that sense, Sunderbans name comes from the famous tree of the forest, Sundori tree. It is aslo called the forest of Samudra (sea).
Due to soil erosion in the Himalayas, the Sunderbans is shaped in the present form. The process was accelerated by tides from the sea face, and the process is continuing still!!
Soils of the Sunderbans differ from the other inner land soils in which, they are subjected to the effects of salinity and water logging, in which, vegetation is naturally effected.
The temperatures in the Sunderbans are almost same than those of the adjacent land areas. The average maximum and minimum temperatures vary between 32º and 21ºC. High temperatures occur from March to June and low in December and January.
Annual rainfall in the Sunderbans is in the range of 1620-2000 mm, and rainfall increases from west to the east. Mainly rainfall occurs during the monsoon and from May to October.
The vegetation of Sunderbans is mainly of mangrove type and a variety of plants including trees, grasses, shrubs, Liana etc. Sundori, Goran, Gewa, Bain, Kewra, Gol-pata, Dhundul, Passur, Ora, Bain are some of the major trees of the mangrove forest.
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