Sunderban
Mangrove forest


Sundarbans (Habitat of Royal Bengal Tigers):

The Sundarbans is the largest continuous block of mangrove forest in the world covering an area of 5770 Sq. KM of land and water, which has protected the Royal Bengal Tigers' from natural disasters. About one third of the total area of this forest is covered by the rivers, channels, canals, and tidal creeks, varying in width from a few meters to 5 KM in some places. Even the land area of Sundarbans forest is subject to tidal inundation during tides. The climate are mainly tropical maritime, with lots of rain most of which falls during the monsoon. During January the weather is mild and dry and temperature can fall as low as 20 to 40 C. Many different species of birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, fishes are found in this forest. The commercial fisherman commonly catches over 120 species of fish. Over 260 species of bird have been are recorded including about 90 species of water bird and 35 species of birds of prey.

About 42 species of mammals are still found in the forest, the Gangetic river dolphin is common in the water, not less then 50 spices of reptiles and 08 species of amphibians are know to occur beside being the habitant of Royal Bengal Tiger, and spotted Dear. The Sunderbans forest is declared as the "World Heritage" site.
 


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