A variety of wild animals are found in the forest areas, such as in the Sundarbans on the southwest coast, which is the home of the Royal Bengal Tiger.

: The largest population of India's Tigers outside the Sundarbans is in the unbroken forests bordering Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Since the Bangladesh Sundarbans is an area of it was inferred that the total tiger population comprised approximately 200 individuals.

The Sundarbans tiger project is a Bangladesh Forest Department initiative that started its field activities in February 2005.

A huge population of saltwater crocodiles ( consisting of many large adults, including a 7-metre male ) is present within the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary of Orissa and they are known to be present in smaller numbers throughout the Indian and Bangladesh portions of the Sundarbans.

The Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests ecoregion lies closer to the Bay of Bengal ; this ecoregion is flooded with slightly brackish water during the dry season, and fresh water during the monsoon season.

It is estimated that 30, 000 chital ( Axis axis ) are in the Sundarbans part of the delta.

The Sundarbans (, Shoondorbôn ) is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world.

The Sundarbans National Park is a National Park, Tiger Reserve, and a Biosphere Reserve located in the Sundarbans delta in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The Sundarbans is estimated to be about 4, 110 km², of which about 1, 700 km² is occupied by waterbodies in the forms of river, canals and creeks of width varying from a few meters to several kilometers.

The Sundarbans is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests.

The mangrove-dominated Ganges Delta – the Sundarbans – is a complex ecosystem comprising one of the three largest single tracts of mangrove forests of the world.

It represents the brackish swamp forests that lie behind the Sundarbans Mangroves, where the salinity is more pronounced.

The Sundarbans Mangroves ecoregion on the coast forms the seaward fringe of the delta and is the world's largest mangrove ecosystem, with of area covered.

Also, the Bengal Basin is slowly tilting towards the east due to neo-tectonic movement, forcing greater freshwater input to the Bangladesh Sundarbans.

As a result, the salinity of the Bangladesh Sundarbans is much lower than that of the Indian side.

A 1990 study noted that there " is no evidence that environmental degradation in the Himalayas or a ' greenhouse ' induced rise in sea level have aggravated floods in Bangladesh "; however, a 2007 report by UNESCO, " Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage " has stated that an anthropogenic 45-cm rise in sea level ( likely by the end of the 21st century, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ), combined with other forms of anthropogenic stress on the Sundarbans, could lead to the destruction of 75 % of the Sundarbans mangroves.

The Sundarbans flora is characterized by the abundance of sundari ( Heritiera fomes ), gewa ( Excoecaria agallocha ), goran ( Ceriops decandra ) and keora ( Sonneratia apetala ) all of which occur prominently throughout the area.

The Sundarbans is an important wintering area for migrant water birds and is an area suitable for watching and studying avifauna.

* 2007 – Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.

From October 2005 to January 2007, the first camera-trap survey was conducted across six sites in the Bangladesh Sundarbans to estimate tiger population density.

Between 1999 and 2001, the highest concentration of tigers attacks on people occurred in the northern and western boundaries of the Bangladesh Sundarbans.

however it currently occurs only in the Sundarbans in Bangladesh as it became extinct in the central, north-east and south-east regions.

Sundarbans South, East and West are three protected forests in Bangladesh.

The Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh mangrove vegetation of the Sundarbans differs greatly from other non-deltaic coastal mangrove forests and upland forests associations.

Although the fauna of Bangladesh have diminished in recent times and the Sundarbans has not been spared from this decline, the mangrove forest retains several good wildlife habitats and their associated fauna.

The Sundarbans plays an important role in the economy of the southwestern region of Bangladesh as well as in the national economy.

Protected areas cover 15 % of the Sundarbans mangroves including Sundarbans National Park and Sajnakhali Wildlife Sanctuary, Sundarbans East in West Bengal, Char Kukri-Mukri, Sundarbans South and Sundarbans West Wildlife Sanctuaries in Bangladesh.

* Terminal Report, Integrated Resource Development of the Sundarbans Reserved Forest: Project Findings and Recommendations, Food and Agriculture Organization ( acting as executing agency for the United Nations Development Programme ), United Nations, Rome, 1998 ( prepared for the Government of Bangladesh )

A forest inventory of the Sundarbans, Bangladesh.

The first church in Bangladesh was built in 1599 at Chandecan ( also called Iswaripur or old Jessore ) near Kaliganj in the Sundarbans of present Satkhira district.

The Sundarbans, an area of coastal tropical jungle in the southwest and last wild home of the Bengal Tiger, and the Chittagong Hill Tracts on the southeastern border with Burma and India, are the least densely populated.

In India, the bull shark may be confused with the Sundarbans or Ganges shark.

Maharaja Pratapaditya declared independence of South Bengal ( Jessore, Khulna in north, Sundarbans, Bay of Bengal in South, Barisal in east and River Ganges in west ) against the Mughal Empire of India.

Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans.

Maharaja Pratapaditya declared independence of South Bengal ( Jessore, Khulna in north, Sundarbans, Bay of Bengal in South, Barisal in east and River Ganges in west ) against the Mughal Empire of India.

In the south of the district, along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, lie the forest tracts of the Sundarbans, the habitation of tigers, leopards and other wild beasts.

It enters Backergunje near the north-west corner of the district, whence it forms its western boundary, and runs south, but with great windings in its upper reaches, until it crosses the Sundarbans, and finally falls into the Bay of Bengal by a large and deep estuary, capable of receiving ships of considerable size.

They played a large role in clearing the Sundarbans.

Living principally in boats, they travel from place to place, profess Islam, and gain their subsistence by wood-cutting in the Sundarbans, fishing, fortune-telling and trading in trinkets.

Cyclone Sidr struck the southwestern coast on November 15, 2007, affecting not only the coastal districts of the administrative division Khulna but also about half of the tropical forest Sundarbans.

* in the Indian Sundarbans tigers occupy about of mangrove forest.

Since 2001, afforestation has continued on a small scale in newly accreted lands and islands of the Sundarbans.

A 2007 report by UNESCO, " Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage " has stated that an anthropogenic 45-cm rise in sea level, likely by the end of the 21st century, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, combined with other forms of anthropogenic stress on the Sundarbans, could lead to the destruction of 75 % of the Sundarbans mangroves.

In the Sundarbans, 10 out of 13 man-eaters recorded in the 1970s were males, and they accounted for 86 % of the victims.

They realized that the Sundarbans mangrove forest at the mouth of the Ganges River contained probably one of the largest populations of wild tigers left in the world.

The initiative has taken solar energy to remote places like Sundarbans, West Bengal and Thar Desert, Rajasthan.

The boundaries of the kingdom changed over centuries ; at various points in time, the borders reached to the jungles of Sundarbans on the Bay of Bengal in the south, to Burma in the west, and to the boundary of Kamarupa kingdom in the north.

In one case, in the Sundarbans region, a tiger was reportedly hit in the face with the tail of a " small crocodile " of this species, drawing blood, but then the big cat turned on the reptile pawing it about the face, flipping it over and tearing open its belly.

has been noted in the Sundarbans mangroves.