The Mud Is the Engine
The Sundarbans sits across roughly 10,000 square kilometres of the Bengal delta, where the Ganga, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers meet the Bay of Bengal. Twice a day, tidal water floods the forest floor and retreats, depositing silt and carrying nutrients. This cycle, not the trees, not the tigers, is the actual engine of the system. The mangrove trees are the beneficiaries of that engine, and everything else is downstream of both.
