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Biodiversity of Bangladesh
Preprints, 2017020045
MDPI AG
2017
Abstract
Biodiversity has become an issue of global anxiety over the past decades due to its rapid decline worldwide. Bangladesh as one of the most densely populated countries in the world is no more exception. The country, although, was once very rich in biodiversity, during the last few decades as a consequence of the rapid reduction in forest area, urbanisation, habitat modification, unsustainable natural resources use and collection and overall climate change it has decreased alarmingly. Of late, the government, as a signatory of various regional and international conservation treaties, has taken various initiatives to improve country's dwindling biodiversity. This paper reviews the present situation of biodiversity in Bangladesh, management trends and major causes of biodiversity loss. A separate statutory body is fundamental to ensure conservation, sustainable use and equitable sharing of benefits arisen from biodiversity in the country.
Details
- Title
- Biodiversity of Bangladesh
- Authors
- Sharif A Mukul (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawShekhar R Biswas (Author) - Lakehead University, CanadaA Z M Manzoor Rashid (Author) - Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
- Publication details
- Preprints, 2017020045
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201702.0045.v1
- ISSN
- 2310-287X; 2310-287X
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2017 by the authors; licensee Preprints, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450597802621
- Output Type
- Preprint
- Research Statement
- false
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