The Sunderbans in trouble
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25/12/2002
The Sunderbans are silting up, the forests are half the size they once were, thanks to human intrusion and problems no guards can resolve, driving people to destroy the forests to earn a meagre living. The guardhouse to the Sunderbans world heritage park in southern Bangladesh sits on one of the many banks of water that flow through the world's largest single block of mangrove forest.