The largest mangrove forest of the world

Sundarbans mangrove backwoods is the better in the world, and covers areas of India and Bangladesh for added than 80 kilometers in basic Sundarbans National Park, declared a Apple Ancestry Armpit by Unesco.
A third of this breadth is covered by baptize and marshes, as able-bodied Sundarbans back 1966 has been advised a altar for wildlife because it is estimated that there alive about 400 Royal Bengal Tigers and added than 30,000 deer in this area.
The backwoods lies at the anxiety of the Ganges and is advance beyond areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, basic the seaward binding of the delta. The seasonally-flooded Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests lie civil from the mangrove forests. The backwoods covers 10,000 km2 of which about 6,000 are in Bangladesh. It became inscribed as a UNESCO apple ancestry armpit in 1997, but while the Bangladeshi and Indian portions aggregate the aforementioned connected ecotope, these are alone listed in the UNESCO apple ancestry account as the Sundarbans and Sundarbans National Park, respectively. The Sundarbans is intersected by a circuitous arrangement of flat waterways, mudflats and baby islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests. The breadth is accepted for the eponymous Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), as able-bodied as abundant fauna including breed of birds, spotted deer, crocodiles and snakes. It is estimated that there are now 500[citation needed] Bengal tigers and about 30,000 spotted deer in the area. Sundarbans was appointed a Ramsar armpit on May 21, 1992. The abundant soils of the basin accept been accountable to accelerated animal use for centuries, and the ecoregion has been mostly adapted to accelerated agriculture, with few enclaves of backwoods remaining. The actual forests, calm with the Sundarbans mangroves, are important abode for the endangered tiger. Additionally, the Sundarbans serves a acute action as a careful flood barrier for the millions of citizenry in and about Kolkata (Calcutta) adjoin the aftereffect of cyclone activity.
Sundarbans is home to abounding altered breed of birds, mammals, insects, reptiles and fish. It is estimated that there may be begin added than 120 breed of angle and over 260 breed of birds and added than fifty breed of reptiles and eight amphibians. Abounding tourists go there to see the Bengal tigers, abyssal crocodiles, leopards and snakes cobra.