Sundarban - The Magical Mangrove
With the Wildlife Sanctuary, Bisphere Reserve & UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sundarban draws universal attraction. This Mangrove forest is a vast area covering 4264 square km in India alone.
The Indian Sunderbans mangroves, are important habitats for bengal Tiger an it is the largest Tiger Reserve and National Park in India.
Sundarbans also contains leopard and several other smaller predators and several other smaller predators such as the jungle cats, fishing cats, and leopard cats.Unlike in other habitats, tigers live here and swim among the mangrove islands, where they hunt scarce prey such as the Chital deer, Indian Muntjacs, Wild boars , and even Rhesus Macaque.
It is estimated that now there are 500 Bengal tigers and about 30,000 spotted deer lives in the Sundarban.
Sundarban paradise for birdwatchers, list includes such seven types of kingfisher, black cormorants, egret, pond heron, Brahmani eagles, magpie robin, green bee eater, rarities as the Masked Finfoot, Mangrove Pitta and the Mangrove Whistler.
The Sundarbans National Park houses an excellent number of reptiles as well. Some of the common ones are olive ridley turtles, sea snakes, dog faced water snakes, green turtles, estuarine crocodiles, chameleons, king cobras, salvator lizards, hard shelled batgun terrapins, Russels vipers, mouse gekkos, monitor lizards, curviers, hawks bill turtles, pythons, common kraits, green vine snake, chequered killbacks and rat snakes. The river terrapin (Batagur baska), Indian flap-shelled turtles (Lissemys punctata), peacock soft-shelled turtles (Trionyx hurum), yellow monitors (Varanus flavescens), water monitors (Varanus salvator), and Indian pythons (Python molurus) are some of the resident species.
The part of world's largest delta, Sunderban formed by the mighty rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna. The world’s largest estuarine forest situated on the lower end of the Gangetic West Bengal. The Sunderbans is criss-crossed by hundreds of creeks and tributaries. We are wlcome you to the most attractive and alluring places remaining on earth, Sunderban is truly undiscovered paradise.
