This mangrove forest was declared as the world heritage site by UNESCO on 6 December1997.It was known in the world well. Many visitors visit it every year.It is partially attractive to the travelers for its natural beauty.Most part of the forest goes under when it is ebb tide.It also dries when it is low tide.Ebb tide occurs twice in a day.To enjoy the moment is very, very much interesting.One who has visited the jungle personally, can’t forget the place.I am the person who have gone there twelve or thirteen times.There is my relative this is why I have been able to enjoy the place much.
There are many people who depend on the forest and rivers.They earn their livelihood depending upon the forest.Some people go to the jungle to collect woods to earn them to gather money.Most of them go to the forest to collect honey from honeycomb.They are often wounded and killed by the ferocious and cannibal tigers.
A large number of people depend on the rivers.The fishermen go to deep sea to catch fish. They use various kinds of nets and boats.They go to the sea for a week or month.They also take with them necessary things to live.They catch big fishes and sell them in the nearest market. Now they can easily communicate with their family.When they had no mobile, they couldn’t contact with their family.Science has developed their lives. Often they are kidnapped by the pirates.The pirates kidnap the fishermen and demand a huge amount of money and necessary rice, dal and cigarette etc as the pirates live in boat in the deep forest The fishermen become penniless to release the kidnapped persons from the pirates.
There are different types of wild animals in this forest.They are the royal Bengal tigers, deer, monkey, snake, hen and various types of insects.The royal Bengal tiger is very ferocious and skilled to kill man.Sometimes the tigers cross the rivers and come to the nearest villages and kill the domestic animals. Sometimes this ferocious tigers attack man.Once a hungry tiger enters into the a village and target a man who was fishing in the pond but the wife of the man noticed it fortunately and started to cry “tiger” “tiger”.Then the villagers gathered there with bamboo and metal weapons.This is a true story of a village named ‘Golakhili’ that is joined with the forest in Vetkhili union in Shamnogor upozila.
There are various types of tree in the forest.They are sundory, dundol, gewa, goran, golpata, hitaly, kewra etc.For the tree Sundory the forest is named the Sundorbans.People collect the Golpata from the jungle and use it to cover the roof of their house.Most of the house is made of mud and covered with Golpata.
There are various types of delicious fruit in forest.They are Hitaly khajur, Gol fruit, kewra etc. people collect them to eat and sell.The monkey mostly live on kewra and other fruits.The sauce of kewra is too delicious to forget. It is also used to cook khata.
There are coastguard to protect the jungle but that in inadequate.The fishermen are often kidnapped by the pirates but the coastguard can’t recover them from the pirates.Some dishonest persons always ready to kill the deer to eat and sell.Some people cut the valuable trees but they don’t know it protect the land from erosion.The mangrove forest is a large source of oxygen which help us to persist in this earth.
So Sundarbons is the biggest mangrove forest and this is one of the best places for traveling in the world.If you want to see natural beauty, something new then you must visit Sundarbons forest.
