Bishu the conductor and ticket collector collect fare from the passenger in Sundarban. The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The forest lies at the end of the Ganges and is spread across areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, forming the seaward fringe of the delta. The forest covers 10,000 sq. km of which about 6,000 are in Bangladesh and rest in West Bengal, India. It became in scripted as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997. More than two million people live in this area and continue to increase rapidly. (Photo by Saikat Paul/Paci


Bishu the conductor and ticket collector collect fare from the passenger in Sundarban. The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The forest lies at the end of the Ganges and is spread across areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, forming the seaward fringe of the delta. The forest covers 10,000 sq. km of which about 6,000 are in Bangladesh and rest in West Bengal, India. It became in scripted as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997. More than two million people live in this area and continue to increase rapidly. (Photo by Saikat Paul/Pacific Press)


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