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Bangladesh & India work together to save Sunderban forest

Bangladesh and India will work together under a United Nations plan to protect the eco-system and bio-diversity of Sundarban, the world's biggest mangrove forest shared by the two countries.

Environment officials said Bangladesh and India currently use different approaches to protect the same eco-system, but were trying to unite it under one project.

The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation declared the Sundarban a world heritage site in 1997 and the U.N. Development Program has funded projects to save it from degradation .

Nearly two-thirds of the 9,630 square kilometre Sundarban lies in Bangladesh and the rest in India, stretching along the Bay of Bengal.

Sundarban is also home to the endangered Royal Bengal Tigers.

13/05/2002 00:25:20 | ABC Radio Australia News

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