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  • From NASA Earth Observatory: Stretching across part of southwestern Bangladesh and southeastern India, the Sundarbans is the largest remaining tract of mangrove forest in the world.

    Sundarbans 2006

  • From NASA Earth Observatory: Stretching across part of southwestern Bangladesh and southeastern India, the Sundarbans is the largest remaining tract of mangrove forest in the world.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • The story fails to mention that Lohachare Island disappeared 22 years ago, and that the entire region of The Sundarbans is a river delta.

    Sound Politics: Schools, minds, closed yet again 2007

  • The Sundarbans is a tapestry of waterways, mudflats, and forested islands at the edge of the Bay of Bengal.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • The Sundarbans is a tapestry of waterways, mudflats, and forested islands at the edge of the Bay of Bengal.

    Sundarbans 2006

  • The archipelago known as the Sundarbans is the setting of The Hungry Tide,.

    Amitabh Ghosh's Hungry Tide Shantanud 2007

  • The archipelago known as the Sundarbans is the setting of The Hungry Tide,.

    Amitabh Ghosh : The Hungry Tide Shantanud 2007

  • The Sundarbans has been the subject of a series of successively more comprehensive working plans since its declaration as reserved forest, the most recent of which points out the importance of the tiger in controlling the spotted deer population, and also mentions the intention of establishing compartments 3-7 as a 'game sanctuary', a total area of some 52,320ha.

    Sundarbans, Bangladesh 2009

  • The Sundarbans is the only sizeable mangrove forest in the world managed for commercial timber production and it has been under some sort of management since 1879.

    Sundarbans, Bangladesh 2009

  • The Sundarbans is the only remaining habitat in the lower Bengal Basin for a variety of faunal species.

    Sundarbans, Bangladesh 2009

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