A Story of a wildlife Centuary

The Sundarbans National Park is the biggest on its own hunk of tidal halophytic mangrove forest on the earth. The "Sundarban" can be exactly translated as "gorgeous jungle" or "gorgeous forest"; in the Bengali "Sundar" means beautiful and "ban" means forest or one can say "jungle"also. The name sunderban may have been taken from the tree Sundari which are found here a lot. On the other hand, it has been proposed that the name "Samudraban" is a corruption   or Chandra-bandhe (name of a primitive tribe). But the normally expected vision is the one connected with trees "Sundari".

With the exception of the Royal Bengal Tiger; Wild Boar, Fox, Forest Cats, Fishing Cats, Macaques, Flying Fox, Pangolin, Common Grey Mongoose and Chitals are also found in large quantity in the forest. The peacock soft-shelled turtle, water monitor, yellow monitor, Indian flap-shelled turtle, Indian python and the Bengal tiger, river terrapin are some the variety of resident

The forest gives a unique flora and fauna with a rich wildlife environment. It was habitat of about 500 Bengal tigers in the year 2004, one of the leading on its own tiger's population. About 100 - 250 people are killed every year in tiger attacks here. Nevertheless, , there has been no any serious report of tiger attacks since 2004,due to various measures taken for safety.

The wildlife management authority is presently restrictedfauna from poaching and designation of some areas as wildlife sanctuaries where taking out of forest produce is not allowed and the wildlife face few disturbances. Of these the tiger and dolphin are targeted group for planning wildlife for tourism enlargement.

It is found at the feet of the holy river "Ganga" and is spread across areas West Bengal in India and Bangaladesh, India, forming the towards the border of the delta. The seasonal flood of Sundarbans quagmire forests from the mangrove forests. The forest spread 10,000 km2 in which near about 6,000km are in Bangladesh. UNESCO announced it as a world heritage site in 1997; these are singly listed as the Sundarbans and Sundarbans National Park, respectively in the UNESCO world heritage list. It is vast network of tidal waterways, small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests. The area is also known for the Royal Bengal Tiger, as well as snakes, , crocodiles spotted deer and numerous fauna with variety of birds. It is projected that there are 500Bengal tigers and approximately 30,000 spotted deer in the area now a day. It was selected a Ramsar site on 21st of May 1992. The rich soils of the delta have been subject matter to intensive use for many decades, and the ecoregion has been by and large transformed to demanding crop growing, with few enclaves of forest left behind. Rests of the forests, jointly with the Sundarbans.