Established in 1978 in twenty four Paraganas district, Sunderbans Tiger
reserve is spread over an area of 2608 sq. kms. Sixty percent of
the demarcated area of the Sunderbans sprawling actually over 9630sq.km,
is in Bangladesh. The national park with a core area of 1330sq.km, has
been designated as a World Heritage Site in 1985 and is a part of the
Project Tiger. The Sunderbans has three wildlife sanctuaries at Sajnekhali,
Lothian Island and Haliday Island.
The park has estuarine mangrove eco-system as it is
situated in the deltaic estuaries of the Ganga and Brahmaputra. The entire
inter tidal zone has been designated as Biosphere Reserve under the Man
and Biosphere program. This littoral forest supports a diversity of trees
and shrubs adopted to conditions and inundation by high tides. Straddling
the rivers Hooghly in the west and Teulia in the east the park has many
small rivers, forested islands besides the vast stretch of mangrove swamps
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