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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 ]
The Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Bangladesh and India. It represents the brackish swamp forests that lie behind the Sundarbans Mangroves, where the salinity is more pronounced. The freshwater ecoregion is an area where the water is only slightly brackish and becomes quite fresh during ...
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 ...
Mangroves in India are coastal ecosystems characterized by salt-tolerant trees and shrubs, found predominantly along the eastern and western coastlines and in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It forms habitat for diverse wildlife, protect shorelines from erosion, and serve as natural barriers against extreme weather events.
A large section of the area is a part of the Sundarbans settlements. [6] The densely populated area is an overwhelmingly rural area. Only 12.96% of the population lives in the urban areas and 87.04% of the population lives in the rural areas. [7] [8] Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision.
Ganges Delta, 2020 satellite photograph. The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta [1]) is a river delta predominantly covering the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
Matla River forms a wide estuary in and around the Sundarbans in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The main stream of the Matla River is divided into two arms near Purandar. One passes through Kultali-Garanbose and then passes through the Sundarbans.
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 .