Sundarban
Sunderbans
national park is located at the South Eastern tip of the 24 Paraganas
district in the state of West Bengal. It got its name from one of the
mangrove plants known as Sundari (Heritiera Minor). The Sundarbans are a
part of the world's largest delta formed by the rivers
Ganges,Brahmaputra and Meghna. Sundarban is a vast area covering 4262
square kms in India alone, with a larger portion in Bangladesh. 2585 sq.
kms of the Indian Sundarban forms the largest Tiger Reserve and
National Park in India. The total area of the Indian part of the
Sundarban forest, lying within the latitude between 21°13'-22°40' North
and longitude 88°05'-89°06' East, is about 4,262 sq km, of which 2,125
sq km is occupied by mangrove forest across 56 islands and the balance
is under water.
The
park is surrounded by a buffer zone of 885 square kilometers. This also
mainly consists of mangrove forests. The core area of the park has it's
own natural boundaries with the river Matla on it's West, the river
Haribhanga on it's East, with Netidhopani and Gosba in the North.
The
four Sunderbans national parks have been lumped together as they all
share common features of the estuarine mangrove ecosystem. The main
attractions of the Sunderbans are the Tiger, of which the delta harbor
large reptiles like the Monitor Lizard, Estuarine Crocodile and the
Olive Ridley Turtle, for which there is a conservation programme in the
Indian park. The Leopard, Indian Rhinoceros, Javan Rhinoceros, Swamp
Deer, Hog Deer and Water Buffalo have all become locally extinct from
the delta in recent decades.
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