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with poverty stricken people in the future. Conservation of mangroves is possible if
the causes of their degradations are thoroughly estimated in the Sundarban.
Some study shows that development of plant habitat as a result of geomorphic
processes in the deltaic depositional landforms evolve over time (Thom 1967), and
modification of habitat conditions by the nature of geomorphic change ultimately
control the ecology of mangroves in tropical humid coasts of macro tidal environment (Thom et al. 1975), and micro tidal environment of western Australia.
Heathcote and Thom (1979) also views that plant habitat as landform may be
affected by complexities which are subject to continual change due to the result of
dynamic processes of the deltaic coasts and other marine forcing factors. The brackish water environment of Chilika lagoon, Odisha, India support a wide variety of
coastal wetland habitats along the seashores of the Bay of Bengal. The coastal habitats
Fig. 11.1 The location of study area in coastal zones of Southwestern Sundarban
11 Mangrove Degradation in the Sundarbans