A Bangladeshi honey collector 'Mowali' is seen through a smoke cloud of burning leaves as he collects honey from a honeycomb hanging in a mangrove forest of The Sundarbans near Khulna some 350kms south west of Dhaka on April 2, 2009.
A Bangladeshi honey collector 'Mowali' prepares to search for honeycombs in a mangrove forest of The Sundarbans near Khulna some 350kms south west of Dhaka on April 2, 2009. The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. "Sundarban" literally means "beautiful jungle" or "beautiful forest" in the Bengali language.
A Bangladeshi honey collector 'Mowali' searches for honeycombs in a mangrove forest of The Sundarbans near Khulna some 350kms south west of Dhaka on April 2, 2009
A honeycomb hangs in a mangrove forest of The Sundarbans near Khulna some 350kms south west of Dhaka on April 2, 2009. The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world.
Bangladeshi honey collectors 'Mowali' hold burning smoking leaves as they prepare to collect honey from a honeycomb hanging in a mangrove forest of The Sundarbans near Khulna some 350kms south west of Dhaka on April 2, 2009. The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. "Sundarban" literally means "beautiful jungle" or "beautiful forest" in the Bengali language. The name Sundarbans may also have been derived from the Sundari trees that are found in Sundarbans in large numbers. The forest lies at the sweaty feet of the Ganges and is spread across areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, forming the seaward fringe of the delta. The seasonally-flooded Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests lie inland from the mangrove forests. The forest covers 10,000 sq.km of which about 6,000 are in Bangladesh. It became inscripted as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997.
