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History of Sundarban National Park-A Complete Life Cycle
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The Chaand Sandagar merchant community were the first reported community who built a city in the now existing baghmara forest block of sundarbans. The ruins of the city are evidence to this fact. Emperor Akbar built many buildings around sundarban, which were later occupied by Portuguese pirates, salt smugglers and dacoits in the 17th century. Evidence can be seen at the ruins left at Netidhopani.
Much later the sundarbans was declared a reserved forest in 1875-76. It was in 1875 that a majority of the mangrove forests were declared as reserve forests. The present Sundarbans National Park was declared as core area of the sundarbans tiger reserve in 1973 and a wildlife sanctuary in 1977. Sundarbans became a national park in 1984. |
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| The other important dates in the history of Sundarbans was recorded in the year 1987 when UNESCO took note of sundarbans as a World Heritage Site. Another major date was in the year 1989 when the title of a Biosphere Reserve was conferred upon sundarban national park. |
