Vote For Sundarban As One Of The New 7 Wonders Of Nature

 Sundarban : Oopportunity to be part of history and the future!

Sundarban reserved forest is the largest natural mangrove forest of the world. Total Sundarban covers an area of nearly
10000sq.km including the

Indian (west Bengal ) part. Sundarban Bangladesh portions covers 6017 sq.km. It is situated towards  south of Khulna , Bagerhat and Satkhira districts along the Bay of Bengal . Two third of Sundarban is mangrove forest and the rest is water. The entire Sundarban has been included as a “RAMSAR” site for wetland and 1397 sq.km area of 3 wildlife sanctuaries has been declared as “World Heritage Site” in 1997.  

 

Sundarban is one of the 28 official finalists for the New7Wonders of Nature, A campaign which will see people worldwide vote to nominate the seven most remarkable, beautiful or extra-ordinary natural locations and features on our planet. In 2011, New7Wonders of Nature will be elected and announced to the world. Vote now and help bring Sundarban into the final seven. This is your Sundri ( Heriteira fomes ) is the dominant plant species of the Sundarban. Perhaps this is the reason for naming the forest as ‘Sundarban'. On the other hand people presumed that from word “Samundar” (means Sea), first “Samundarban” and then the name “Sundarban” came into existence. The forest floor rises 0.9 m to 2.11 m above mean sea level. The entire forest is inundated twice a day with the high tide. Water is saline. Salinity varies seasonally. During monsoon salinity decreases for heavy downpour in the upstream. Western Sundarban is more saline than that of eastern. That's why eastern region is rich in Sundri trees and the other hand Goran ( Ceriops decandra ) dominates the western region. Rich biodiversity associated with high and low tides has made an unique ecosystem here in Sundarban which is very rare.