Steps Toward Forest Landscape Restoration in the Context of the Rohingya Influx: Creating Opportunities to Advance Environmental, Humanitarian, and Development Progress in Bangladesh. CGD Policy Paper 148, July 2019

Heather Tallis; Cindy Huang; John L Herbohn; Karen Holl; Sharif A Mukul; Kam Morshed

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Steps Toward Forest Landscape Restoration in the Context of the Rohingya Influx: Creating Opportunities to Advance Environmental, Humanitarian, and Development Progress in Bangladesh. CGD Policy Paper 148, July 2019

Heather Tallis, Cindy Huang, John L Herbohn, Karen Holl, Sharif A Mukul and Kam Morshed

Centre for Global Development

2019

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Since August 2017, over 740,000 Rohingya refugees have fled atrocities and violence in Myanmar to Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There are now one million Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, comprising about 30 percent of the population. This increase, coupled with immediate needs for fuelwood and shelter, has diminished livelihoods due to deforestation and loss of access to land; soil and slope erosion; fuelwood scarcity and associated risks to safety of people collecting fuelwood; increased encroachment and forest degradation; declining water quality, groundwater reserve depletion, and air pollution; decreasing soil quality; and climate vulnerability. To restore cleared forest areas, and improve human and environmental wellbeing, international actors must work with the Government of Bangladesh to implement a long-term forest landscape restoration (FLR) plan for Cox's Bazar. This paper provides a number of recommendations which work towards this goal, focused on: improving efficiency and impact of reforestation investments; improving seedling survival and benefits inside and outside camps; improving disaster resilience and nutrition inside camps; and increasing ecological and social benefits out of camps.

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Title: Steps Toward Forest Landscape Restoration in the Context of the Rohingya Influx: Creating Opportunities to Advance Environmental, Humanitarian, and Development Progress in Bangladesh. CGD Policy Paper 148, July 2019
Authors: Heather Tallis (Author) - Nature Conservancy
Cindy Huang (Author) - Center for Global Development
John L Herbohn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Karen Holl (Author) - University of California, United States
Sharif A Mukul (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Kam Morshed (Author) - BRAC
Publication details: 39 pages
Publisher: Centre for Global Development
Date published: 2019
Organisation Unit: Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Industries Research Centre; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451378802621
Output Type: Report

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