Wildlife
Parks & Sanctuary In India
Sunderbans National Park
ConservationSunderbans Tiger Reserve, created in 1973,
was the part of the then 24-Parganas Forest Division. Subsequently, the area
comprising the present tiger reserve was constituted as a Reserve Forest in
1978. The area of the Reserve is 2585 sq. km. , covering a land area of 1600
sq. km. and the water body occupying over 985 sq. km. Within this area,
1330.12 sq. km. is designated as core area, which was subsequently declared
as Sundarbans National Park in 1984. An area of 124.40 sq. km. within the
core area is preserved as primitive zone to act as a gene pool. Within the
buffer zone, Sajnekhali Wildlife Sanctuary was created in 1976, covering an
area of 362.335 sq. km. Considering the importance of the bio-geographic
gegion of Bengal River Forests and its unique bio-diversity, the National
Park area of the Reserve was included in the list of World Heritage Sites in
1985. The entire Sundarbans area was declared as Biosphere Reserve in 1989.