TIGER POPULATION IN SUNDERBANS

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• The Sunderbans delta, spread over India and Bangladesh, is the only mangrove forest in the world inhabited by tigers.
  
  
• The increase in the number by eight was significant as it was the biggest annual jump reported from the Sunderbans.
  
  
• The Sunderban mangrove forest is spread over 2,585 sq. km and includes the Sundarban Tiger Reserve and the 24 Parganas (South) Division.
  
  
• Estimation of the number of tigers in the Sunderbans, a world heritage as well as a Ramsar site, has always been a challenge because of the difficult terrain that comprises dense mangrove forests, with creeks and rivulets, and floods twice a day during the high tides.