Sundarbans- Mangrove Forest: A unique gift of God to man.

 Sundarbans- Mangrove Forest: A unique gift of God to man.

         Bangladesh is riverine, Sundarbans is more than that. Somewhere, the farther south the current of the river is moving towards the Bay of Bengal, the wider it is, the calmer it is, the faster the waves are moving. It is not easy to estimate the number of tributaries and canals of each river. There are as many rivers and canals in Bangladesh as there are in the Sundarbans. Shrubs, Keora-Hintal, Sundari-Garan-Gewa, etc. Trees along the river-ditch on it. The deep forest has created darkness by leaning on the shore. Somewhere, on either side of the canals, there is a thicket of around trees, like a wall in a tunnel. This wild beauty is reserved only for the Sundarbans. It's hard to imagine not seeing that wild beauty. Reaching the face of a Trimohana or a bend to see that beauty is another wonderful sight. A wide ridge on both sides, a beautiful array of green acacia trees on the ridge, covered with forest. Not to mention the animals and birds of the forest. Lying in front is the beautiful living water. Steam is playing in the waves or in the smoke, or water is evaporating, water is evaporating, or steam is touching the branches of the trees, then the Sundarbans is touched and the rain falls. The hypnosis of this beauty cannot be easily broken. This beauty is exclusively Sundarbans. 

The Sundarbans

       The Sundarbans is a magical name. There is no record of any time when the world's largest delta was formed at the mouth of the Ganges and Padma and deep forests were created in the islands. Its main feature is the rib-like mangroves or tropical trees on the soil. Intense creeper shrub-grass forest. And on the green, there are flowers and flowers in various colors. Bees are flying over it, terrifying tigers in the forest, toothed pigs, poisonous snakes. River sharks, crocodiles, camels, and deer-monkeys. Many local and migratory birds like a small fisherman from Indus Eagle. There are also otters, dolphins, fish, turtles, and crabs in the rivers and canals. The roar of Barisal cannons coming from the Bay of Bengal can be heard in Ashar-Shravan. It is also called random sound or unseen sound. The English used to say, 'Barisal Gans'. I have enjoyed its sound seriousness and sound splendor many times.

The Sundarbans

        According to many scholars, there were thirteen Mahavanas in ancient India. The largest of these was called the Angry Forest. It extended from the coast of the Bay of Bengal to the Brahmaputra river adjoining Assam in north-east India. Today's part of it is our only forest Sundarbans. The three districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the forests of Sylhet now survive only in name. Archaeological excavations have revealed samples of Sundarbans trees near the city of Lucknow on the banks of the Ganges. That means the Sundarbans was there at one time. The Ganges once flowed further north from there. That Sundarbans was one hundred years ago from the west of the Meghna estuary to the east of the Hooghly river. Its length from east to west was 180 miles. The north-south width was 60 miles to the west and not more than 30 miles to the east. If the average extent is 50 miles, the size of the Sundarbans is 6000 square miles. That is from Barisal to Sagardwip in West Bengal. This calculation is one hundred years old. Now there are no Sundarbans south of Barisal-Patuakhali-Barguna. The Haringhata River is now the eastern boundary of the Sundarbans. Now the area of ​​Sundarbans is estimated to be 10 thousand sq km by Bangladesh and India. Six thousand square kilometers in Bangladesh. And four thousand sq. Km. In West Bengal, India. 120-25 years ago, the Sundarbans was a forest in the true sense of the word. Now the skeleton of the forest, the molten corpse. 

The Sundarbans

       In the forests of the Sundarbans, people started producing crops by clearing the jungle by fighting demonic animals and aquatic animals. Today the forests of Barisal, Patuakhali, and Barguna are lost in that wave of people. In West Bengal, forests were destroyed and human settlements were established on 54 islands. 4 million people are living there, the forests have been destroyed. But the rest is dense Sundarbans forest. Even in such dense forests in Bangladesh, people have lost their grip due to lack of planning and supervision. Like West Bengal, Bangladesh did not allow human settlements inside the Sundarbans, so the Sundarbans were protected. But otherwise, the Sundarbans in the western part of the Sundarbans i.e. Barisal, Patuakhali and Barguna have completely disappeared. I will just say why, the Sundarbans was once before — Bhola, Hatia, Sandwip, and Chakoria-Banshkhali. Even today, the initiative to create a new Sundarbans paragon is going on there. In early July, a group of Japanese students fell into a tree there.  And when the Sundarbans stretched from Lucknow to North Bengal and Assam thousands of years ago, the Royal Bengal Tiger still lived there. Since then, the Sundarbans have gradually reached its present stage along the Ganges-Padma estuary. Who knows where to stop under the pressure of 160 million people. If the Sundarbans are wiped out by oppression, its unimaginable evils will be borne by 160 million people and its descendants. With the world.

Economic and Geographical Value of the Sundarbans:

       The value of the Sundarbans cannot be measured in terms of money. When the Sundarbans are wiped out, the first catastrophe will be in weather and rain. South Bengal will be devastated by the second catastrophic Isla or similar tidal wave. There will be an extreme crisis in biodiversity. Nothing will be left out of birds, animals, fisheries. That is, all the visible and invisible resources of the Sundarbans are inseparable. He is also deeply involved in the economy of Bangladesh.

Last word:

         Nature's storm-tide, the loss of the Sundarbans destroyed in Aila is replenished according to the laws of nature. But the oppression of the people of today's age, the establishment of factories, the oppression of extracting mineral resources from the ground is not to be fulfilled. To protect the Sundarbans, a thorough survey is needed first and foremost. It can be found in his exact situation. According to that situation, strategies and plans should be made to protect him. Many divers are being born in the Bay of Bengal south of the Sundarbans. Rivers and canals are filled with silt. The fishery resources of the sea are being diverted due to these reasons. Over the years, it has been noticed that Hilsa is leaving its normal roaming area and moving to new places. The Sundarbans will become a nightmare due to human oppression. Natural oppression knows how to digest the Sundarbans part of nature. He does not know the strategy to escape from human oppression. This fact is indelible.