The beauty and destruction of the Sundarbans - The Sundarbans is the largest forest in Bangladesh.

 

Bangladesh is riverine, Sundarbans is more than that. Somewhere, the farther southward the tidal river is moving towards the Bay of Bengal, the wider it is, the calmer it is, the faster it is moving. It is not easy to estimate the number of tributaries and canals of each river. There are as many rivers and canals in the Sundarbans as there are in Bangladesh. Shrubs, Keora-Hintal, Sundari-Garan-Gewa etc. trees along the river-canal on it. The deep forest has created darkness by leaning on the shore. Somewhere on either side of the canals stands a crowded tunnel-like tunnel wall. 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, the forest covered behind it. 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 trees, then the Sundarbans is touched and the stream of rain opens up. The hypnosis of this beauty cannot be easily broken. This beauty is exclusively 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 clay. Intense creeper shrub-grass forest. And on the green there are flowers and flowers of 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 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. 

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 160 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 is 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. At that time the Sundarbans came to the notice of the English. 

 

The British realized that clearing the dense vegetation of this forested island would increase farmland and increase land revenue. In this greed they started leasing the islands of the Sundarbans. The rich people from different parts of Bengal also came and took leases and greed fell into the forest. This happened as a result of the Industrial Revolution in Europe. The onset of guilty feelings about having the affair, in the first place, further zaps whatever energy the partner having the affair might still have left. People then did not understand the extent of its dire consequences. 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 completely destroyed and human settlements were established on 54 islands. Home to 4 million people, forests have been completely 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. Unlike West Bengal, Bangladesh did not allow human settlements inside the Sundarbans, so the Sundarbans was protected. But otherwise the Sundarbans in the western part of the Sundarbans i.e. Barisal, Patuakhali and Barguna have become completely extinct. I will just say why, the Sundarbans once extended to Chakoria-Banshkhali through Bhola, Hatia, Sandwip. 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. 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 has 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 is wiped out by oppression, its unimaginable evils will be borne by 160 million people and its descendants. With the world.