About Sundarbans

Sundarbans,the home of the famous Royal Bengal Tiger . The Sundarbans in bengali is "Shundorbon". It is the largest mangrove forest in the world . In bengali language sundar means "beautiful"and ban means "forest or jungle .Therefore Sundarbans means beautiful forest or jungle . The name may have derived from the sundari trees . Those trees are found in sundarbans in large numbers . The forest covers 10,000 km^2.

The Sundari tree

The Golpatha tree

The Sundari tree

About Sundarbans Information

About Sundarbans:
Location:
Environment:

Habitats:

• Animals:

1. Royal Bengal Tiger ( Panther Tigris )
2. The River Terrapin ( Batagur baska )
3. Indian Flap Shelled Turtle ( lissemys punctata )
4. Yellow monitor ( Varanus flavescens )
5. Water Monitor ( Varanus salvator )
6. Indian Python ( Python moluris )
7. Fishing Cat ( Prionailurus viverrinus )
8. Wild Boar

• Trees:

1. Sundari (Heritiera fomes)
   
2. Golpata( Nypa fruticans )
   
3. Goran (Ceriops decandra)
   
4. Kaora (Sonneratia apetala )
   
5. Dundal ( Xylocpus granatum )
   
6. Son ( Imperata cylindrical )
7. Nol khagra ( Phragmites karka )
   
8. Gayoya ( Excoecaria agallocha )
   

• Birds:

1. Fishing eagle
2. White lbis
3. Water hen
   
4. Spotted doves
   
5. Whistling teal
   
6. Green pigeon
7. Open Billed Storks
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