Sundarbans National Park - The Jewel of West Bengal
Tiger in Sundarbans
Fishing Boat
Crocodile
Sundarbans National Park is situated in the Parganas district of West Bengal in India. The park is named after the Sundari trees present in the area. Sundarban is made up of 200-300 AD.
Sundarbans was declared a reserve forest in the year 187rld heritage list in the year 1987.
The biotic factors here play a significant role in physical coastal evolution and for wildlife.
There are about 64 species of flora in the sundarbans. Majority comprises of Sundari (Heritiera fomes), Goran (Ceriops decandra) , Garjan (Rhizophora spp.) etc. The fauna of Sundarbans is dominated by the royal bengal tiger followed by fishing cats, jungle cats, wild boar, pangolin, and chital.
