Sundarbans National Park, located in North Bengal on the border with the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a biosphere reserve and, above all, famous for its tiger conservation program. It is a system of 54 small islands covered with mangroves, separated by seven major rivers and their tributaries.

Created park Sundarbans was in 1973 as a protected area for the Bengal tigers, for which this area is a natural habitat. Then, in 1977, the Sundarbans raised its status to a natural reserve in 1984, he became a national park. And after 5 years, in 1989, after making it to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site, it received the status of a biosphere reserve.

On the territory of the National Nature Reserve is currently home to about 400 species of royal Bengal tigers, which have two characteristics: they are quite aggressive and have a tendency to attack on the person, and they are adapted to life in water bodies with salt water.

Besides Bengal tigers, for which it was originally created reserve, live in the Sundarbans and spotted Bengal cat, jungle cats, foxes, flying fox, pangolin, mongoose ordinary, Axis.

Sundarbans is a place where due to the large amount of water, home to many aquatic animals, reptiles, reptiles and waterfowl. So in the park are quite common saltwater crocodiles, several species of turtles (green and olive ridley sea turtle, hawksbill turtle), dog-so, so-water angler. The river is rich in fish.