World Heritage Mangrove Forest Sundarbans has started a survey to determine the number and species of trees. The survey work has started from Tuesday (March 19) under the supervision of the forest department. The forest department will complete this work within the next three months.
This survey is being conducted to find out how many species and what amount of plants are there in the 4 thousand 142.6 square kilometers of mangrove forest area of 6 thousand 17 square kilometers of Bangladesh.
According to the information of the Forest Department, there were 334 species of plants, 165 species of algae and 13 species of orchids, including Sundari, Gewa, Garan, Pasur, Kangra, Keora, Dhundal, Bain, Khalsi, Amur, Singra, in the 1903 survey. In the 1985 survey, the number of forest and shrub species in the Sundarbans decreased to 66 species. In the 1997 survey, only 48 plant species were found in the Sundarbans. Then in the last survey of 2014-15, the number of tree species in Sundarbans increased to 184. Among them, there are 54 species of trees, 28 species of foliage, 13 species of trees, 22 species of shrubs, 13 species of ferns, 12 species of orchids, three species of parasitic plants, two species of palms, 28 species of grasses and 9 species of fungi.
Currently, 70 percent of these plants in the Sundarbans are Sundari, Gewa and Garan trees. However, among these plants, five species of plants in the endangered species list include Lahur, Banabakul, Mahajani Lata and two species of orchids.
Kazi Muhammad Nurul Karim, Divisional Forest Officer of East Sundarban Forest Division, said that the survey has started from Tuesday to find out how many species and amount of plants are on the ground of the entire Sundarbans of Bangladesh. The officers and employees of the forest department will complete this survey within the next three months. Only then will it be possible to know how many species and how many plants there are in the Sundarbans.
Abu Hussain Suman/SR/ASM
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