World Heritage Site

A World Heritage [ঐতিহ্য] Site [জায়গা] is a place of either cultural [সাংস্কৃতিক] or physical significance [মর্ম]. A place becomes a World Heritage Site when the international community recognizes [স্বীকৃতি দেয়] it as possessing [অধিকারী] universal [সর্বজনীন] value [মান]. Then the responsibility for its preservation [সংরক্ষণ] comes under an international collective body. The country possessing the site nominates [মনোনীত] it to the World Heritage Convention. And a 21-member international committee decides whether it has universal value. Some World Heritage Sites of the Bangladesh are the Mosque City of Bagerhat, the Sundarbans and Sompura Bihar at Paharpur. The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world, lies on the delta (ব –দ্বীপ) of the Ganges (গঙ্গা), Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is adjacent [সংলগ্ন] to the border of India. It is inscribed as World Heritage site in 1987. The site is intersected [অন্তর্চ্ছেদ] by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats [কাদাভূমি] and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests, and presents an excellent example of ongoing ecological [পরিবেশগত] processes [প্রক্রিয়া]. Forest areas are dominated [অধ্যুষিত] by a few species [প্রজাতি] mostly Sundri and Gewu and patches of Nypa palm and several other of the 27 species of mangrove that are found in the Sundarbans. The area is known for its wide range of fauna [প্রাণিকুল], including 260 bird species, the Bengal tiger and other threatened species such as the estuarine [মোহনার] crocodile and the Indian python. Each World Heritage Site is the property of the state on whose territory the site is located. But it is considered in the interest of international community to preserve each site.