| ■ ■ ■ | Sundarbans National Park | ■ ■ ■ |
A severe life with Tiger and a People is visible to vast land.
| The Ganges and the Brahmaputra river where the melted snow of the Himalayas
flows. It arrives at even the Bay of Bengal and a SUNDARUBANSU national
park is located in the mouth of a river. This national park is what and the vast land of 258,500ha, and a world's largest mangrove wood spreads. A delta region reaches to Bangladesh of the next country. As for there, many reptiles, such as a wild bird, fishes, and an alligator, and mammals live. BENGARUDORA is at the top. Tiger called strongest may also be said whether to be exterminated temporarily. By overhunting of a fur guide etc., only 1800 animals were in the number in India in 1972. However, "project Tiger" is started as a national enterprise after that, and the number is continuing increasing favorably. The national park where Tiger ends. That is, it was unavoidable that the danger to man is born there. It is this place near also from central city Calcutta, and to kill a tiger in addition was made into the serious crime. When going into a public inside a garden after that, the measure of giving a field is made, and it is said that the number of death was reduced by half. The severe coexistence relation between TORA and people continues in this area with many poor fishermen. It was registered in 1987. |