Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Sundarbans were very sparsely populated until the 19th century. There is evidence of only scattered human settlements dating back to the 8th century. The 19th century saw the start of permanent human habitation being established in the area, through the clearing of the forest in low-lying tracts and the construction of circuit embankments.
The Sundarbans area is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, and the population is increasing. [citation needed] As a result, half of this ecoregion's mangrove forests have been cut down to supply fuelwood and other natural resources. Despite the intense and large-scale exploitation, this still is one of the largest contiguous ...
The area got depopulated and the forests extended. [5] With the treaty of 1757 between Mir Jafar and the East India Company, the British acquired the zamindari rights of the 24 Parganas. The area around Kolkata was uncultivated waste land and the western limit of the Sundarbans was just about 7 miles away. The British were keen to bring the ...
The Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve or Indian Sundarbans covers an area of 9,630 square kilometers (3,720 sq mi) and is divided into core, buffer, and transi-tion zones. [3] The area of reserved forest under the Biosphere Reserve is about 4263 km 2, [3] of which 55% land is under vegetation cover and the remaining 45 per cent under wetland ...
The present Sundarban National Park was declared as the core area of Sundarban Tiger Reserve in 1973 and a wildlife sanctuary in 1977. On 4 May 1984 it was declared a national park. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1987, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and it has been designated as a Ramsar site since 2019. [ 1 ]
Sundarbans — a World Heritage Site, and tropical Indomalayan ecoregion of mangroves, Ramsar site wetlands, and moist broadleaf forests. Located on the Bay of Bengal in southwestern Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal .
The Swatch of No Ground (SoNG) is a 14 km wide trench in the Bay of Bengal. It is located 30 km from Dublar Char Islands, located in the Sundarbans.. This deepest trench has a record size of about 1340 meters (400–450 m deeper than the surrounding mean seafloor depth of 1000 m). [3]
The Sundarbans are everchanging and composed of thousands of islands, many being uninhabitable. [2] The Sundarbans are a UNESCO World Heritage site with four protected areas being held under reserve forest and wildlife sanctuary. [2] The name Sundarbans comes from the common Mangrove trees which populate the area, known locally as Sundori trees ...