The writer with tiger cubs at Chittagong Zoo. Written By 29th Jul 2021 The Sundarbans is the world’s biggest mangrove forest, comprising 10,000 square kilometres of Bangladesh and India, with Bangladesh accounting for 60 percent of the total. The Sundarbans is the only place where Royal Bengal Tigers are available. As stated by Bangladesh Forest Department, Bangladesh had 114 tigers in 2018. This was an increase of eight from the 2015 tiger survey. In India, there were 97 tigers in 2019, up from 81 in 2017. In comparison to Bangladesh, the Indian forest department has been working hard for a long time to enhance the population of tigers in the Indian Sundarbans. As a result, India’s tiger population is growing faster than that of Bangladesh. Indigenous people that lived in the Indian Sundarbans have been relocated. At tiger sanctuaries, CCTV cameras are being installed, and public mobility is being monitored and restricted. On the other hand, just a few years ago, shootings and abductions of bandits and law enforcers in the depths of the Sundarbans were an everyday occurrence in Bangladesh. Such incidences have now largely declined. In addition, the movement of people in the Bangladesh Sundarbans is much more than in the Indian part. People are free to enter the forest for honey, golpata, fish, forest timber and firewood. As a result, tigers are becoming insecure, and conflict between tigers and humans is also on a rise.