Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Sundarbans is home to numerous species, including the Royal Bengal tiger, ...

The Forest Department has undertaken a major initiative to restore mangrove forests along the banks of 52 rivers and canals near the Sundarbans in Khulna. This effort, inspired by the successful ...

Sundarbans literally means "beautiful forest," but as the novelist Amitav Ghosh writes, "There is no prettiness here to invite the stranger in." The largest mangrove forest in the world — home ...

The entire mangrove forest is called Sundarban owing to the dominance of the tree species Heritiera fomes, locally known as sundari because of its elegance. Sundarban flora is characterized by of 26 ...

The Sundarbans were once thick with Sundari trees across thousands of hectares of land but its diminishing number over the past three decades has made way for Kankra trees in the world’s largest ...

The Sundarbans mangroves hold a treasure-trove of nature We loved every second of our day trip to the world's largest mangrove forest, which straddles Bangladesh and India.

We take a cruise through the vast Sundarbans mangrove forest, an area straddling southern Bangladesh and eastern India that teems with wildlife, from Bengal tigers to crocodiles and dolphins.

The largest continuous mangrove forest straddling India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans are already seeing an impact of water pollution in the Ganges, explains researcher Anwesha Ghosh.