Ratargul Swamp Forest is a freshwater swamp forest located in Sylhet, Bangladesh.It is the only swamp forest located in Bangladesh and one of the few freshwater swamp forest in the world.The forest is naturally conserved under the Department of Forestry, Govt. of Bangladesh.But its growing and climbing is totally spontaneous.Nobody cares about it.
Its area is 3, 325.61 acre including 504 acre declared as the animal sanctuary in 2015.It supplies a great amount of oxygen.It is known as the Amazon of Bangla and Sundarbans of Sylhet.This only swamp forest in Bangladesh is located 26 kilometres (16 mi) far from Sylhet. The forest's name comes from the word, "Rata" or "Pati" tree, used by the locals of Sylhet.
The evergreen forest is situated by the river Goain and linked with the channel Chengir Khal.There has a boat station in the middle.Most of the trees growing here are the Millettia pinnata.The forest is submerged under 20–30 feet water in the rainy season. For the rest of the year, the water level is about 10 feet deep.
