🐅 Sundarbans Communities

Sundarbans Communities

Sundarbans communities (millions) inhabit the world's largest mangrove forest spanning Bangladesh/India—a tidal wetland where Royal Bengal tigers kill 50-100 people annually. They endure tiger predation while fishing/honey collecting, cyclones, rising seas, saltwater intrusion, extreme poverty, and amphibious existence. Wearing masks on back of head to deter tiger attacks, worship of tiger goddess Bonbibi, honey harvesting in tiger territory, and survival in shifting mangrove islands define this unique human-predator coexistence zone.