Q.Why does the Sundarbans region hold particular importance for the conservation of the Royal Bengal Tiger?

Step 1. The Sundarbans forms one of the last strongholds of the Royal Bengal Tiger anywhere in the world, at a time when tiger populations elsewhere have been severely reduced by habitat loss. Step 2. Unlike most other tiger populations, which occupy dry or moist deciduous forest, the Sundarbans population is uniquely adapted to a tidal mangrove ecosystem, regularly swimming between the delta's many low-lying islands and tolerating brackish, saline water conditions found almost nowhere else within the species' range. Step 3. Because this specific mangrove habitat is itself limited in extent and under separate pressure from rising sea levels and coastal erosion, the Sundarbans population is both scientifically distinctive and especially difficult to conserve compared with tiger populatio …

• Describing the Sundarbans tiger population as identical in habitat/behaviour to other Indian tiger populations. …