It is proposed to dig canals across some of these areas, on experimental basis, to facilitate tidal flooding and increased moisture in such barren areas. This is the only mangrove ecoregion that harbours the Indo-Pacific region's largest terrestrial predator, the Bengal tiger.

Text available under a Your support will help us build a future where humans live in harmony with nature.The Sundarbans is a cluster of low-lying islands in the Bay of Bengal, spread across India and Bangladesh, famous for its unique mangrove forests.

Such reliance on the notion of ‘resilience’ has become increasingly unsustainable and will only keep the region and its people poor. The Bangladesh part of the forest lies under two forest divisions, and four administrative ranges viz Chandpai (Khulna District), Protected areas cover 15% of the Sundarbans mangroves including In May 2019, the local authorities in Bangladesh killed 4 tiger poachers in a shootout in the Sunderbans mangrove area where currently 114 tigers dwell.

The Sundarban Foundation is established for the development of Sundarbans area to provide the service for the poor people and villagers who are residing in critical situation where most of them are suffering and struggling for their livelihood and try to make their earnings with some local product like honey collection, fishing, wood cutting, cultivation and thorough boating service etc.

The Sundarbans are an archipelago of 102 islands located in the State of West Bengal in eastern India in the Ganges Delta, stretching into southern Bangladesh. of people by the tigers.

Chittagong, Bangladesh.Habib, M.G. Moreover, the submergence of land mass have rendered up to 6,000 families homeless and around 70,000 people are immediately threatened with the same.A 2015 ethnographic study, conducted by a team of researchers from Heiderberg university in Germany, found a crisis brewing in the Sunderbans. The total area of this Biosphere Reserve has been divided into the following inter-related zones:Some of the islands within the mangrove forest do not experience regular inundation by tidal action, due to turtle-back shape at the center of the islands. Loss of the mangrove forest will result in the loss of the protective biological shield against cyclones and tsunamis. Therefore, construction of irrigation canals and ponds constitute important components of Eco-development activities.

Participatory or Joint Mangrove Management (JMM) is thus the basis of sustainable Conservation of Mangrove Eco-system. “Golden jackal was captured for the first time in Sundarbans and seems to be a recent coloniser restricted to the mangrove forest edges of Sajnekhali Wildlife Sanctuary and islands of the biosphere reserve adjacent to the human-inhabited islands,” the report says. This results into increase of salinity and formation of saline blanks which do not support any vegetation.

While 4,200 sq km lies in West Bengal in India, the remaining 6,000 sq km falls in neighbouring Bangladesh. The physiography is dominated by deltaic formations that include innumerable drainage lines associated with surface and subaqueous levees, splays and tidal flats. (i) Development of water holes for catering the need of sweet water to the wild animals.

Community-driven projects to reduce unsustainable livelihood practices that cause environmental degradation are an imperative. Background: Co-management in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest The Sundarbans constitute the world’s largest continuous mangrove forest (10,000km2) located within a massive river delta system between India and Bangladesh. Four protected areas in the Sundarbans are enlisted as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, viz. The Sundarbans world heritage site: an introduction, Forest Department, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Now, the ships and barges take alternate water routes, avoiding the Sundarbans, to reach Bangladesh,” said Ravi Kant Sinha, chief wildlife warden, West Bengal. It is the single largest source of The forest has immense protective and productive functions. A ruin of a city built by The first Forest Management Division to have jurisdiction over the Sundarbans was established in 1869.