It is adjacent to the border of India’s Sundarbans World Heritage site inscribed in 1987. The site is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant ...
making it the nation with the highest number of Ramsar sites in South Asia. Among these, the Sundarbans stand out as the largest Ramsar site, while Chilika Lake and Keoladeo National Park are ...
However, this Unesco World Heritage Site is now under severe threat due to unregulated industrialisation, the Rampal coal-fired power plant, toxic fishing practices, and unchecked pollution.