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Forest Protected Area Systems and Biodiversity Conservation in Bangladesh
Preprints, 2016110101
MDPI AG
2016
Abstract
Despite of being an exceptionally biodiversity rich country, the forest coverage of Bangladesh is declining at an alarming rate. Declaration and management of protected areas in this regard is one of the efforts from government side to tackle the loss of biodiversity. The limited numbers of forest-protected areas (FPA), established to conserve the dwindling forest biodiversity of the country with high pressure on them for timber, non-timber forest products, and fuelwood - makes their management challenging. Moreover, most of the FPAs of the country declared only in the recent decades with very limited infrastructure, manpower and policy support for monitoring and governance. Some people-centred approaches for the management of FPAs and alternative livelihood and income generation subsidies although made available through a few project interventions, their number are still inadequate and performance remains less than satisfactory. This chapter provides a critical review of the FPAs of Bangladesh looking at their role in biodiversity conservation, management challenges, and key lessons from previous management interventions with recommendations for the future. It has been revealed that the FPA system of Bangladesh still poorly represents the diverse forest ecosystems with relatively small forest size and lack of corridors for the movement of wildlife. There are ample opportunities to render co-management of FPAs an effective strategy to minimize the conflicts in FPAs management in the country. It is, however, important to ensure the access of local forest-dependent people to different alternative income generating options that may adequately support their livelihoods.
Details
- Title
- Forest Protected Area Systems and Biodiversity Conservation in Bangladesh
- Authors
- Sharif A Mukul (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawA Z M Manzoor Rashid (Author) - Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, BangladeshNiaz Ahmed Khan (Author) - University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Publication details
- Preprints, 2016110101
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Date published
- 2016
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201611.0101.v1
- ISSN
- 2310-287X; 2310-287X
- Copyright note
- Copyright This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451028302621
- Output Type
- Preprint
- Research Statement
- false
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