Volume-1, Issue-2

CORE ARTICLE

Tiger Conservation in Bangladesh:Importance & Challenges 

Tiger, symbol of the beast and beauty, is a threatened species worldwide. Recent estimate shows that tigers only occupy 7% of their historic Asian range and about 4000 are left in the wild (Dinerstein et al. 2007). Aside from this alarming tiger status worldwide, Bangladesh possesses a relatively good number of them, mostly concentrated in the Sundarbans. Joint India and Bangladesh tiger census-2004 (using pugmark counting) estimated that there are 419 (121 male and 298 female) tigers in Bangladesh Sundarbans. The number may vary, as many scientists are sceptical about the accuracy of pugmark counting. However, it is beyond doubt that the size of the tiger population in the Bangladesh Sundarbans would be between 300-500. Being the biggest member of the cat family the Bengal tiger is popularly known as Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) for its unique hunting behaviour and spectacular physical appearance. More...

RESEARCH WORLDWIDE

  • Projection Global Marine Biodiversity Impacts Under Climate Change Scenarios

  • Climate change seems to be even more devastating for sea living species than for those on land. That is the message from a group of researchers from Canada, the UK and the US who have modelled how climate change will affect fisheries of the world. Specifically, the study looks at how ocean biodiversity will change by 2050 under three different climate scenarios that represent high, medium and low range greenhouse gas emissions. In essence, it highlights that under all three scenarios it is the countries primarily responsible for churning out greenhouse gases (e.g. parts of Europe, the US and Australia) that will have improved fisheries production in 2050.  More..

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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has entered into force on 29 December 1993 following a negotiation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio "Earth Summit") in 1992. The objectives of this Convention, to be pursued in accordance with its relevant provisions, are the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources, including by appropriate access to genetic resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant technologies, taking into account all rights over those resources and to technologies, and by appropriate funding. Since the dawn of civilization human is using biodiversity resources for the sake of prosperity beyond sustainable limit which results into extinction of many valuable biodiversity resources. Of late, the world has enormously responded to this issue and consequently the year 2010 has been declared as International Year of Biodiversity (IYB). Bangladesh has a rich diversity of flora and fauna covering a wide diversity of ecosystems from hills to sea; moist deciduous forests to the mangroves and different agro-ecosystems spread over wetlands, flood plains to the hills. Bangladesh is heavily dependent on her biological resources to sustain its economy and livelihoods of the people. Our traditional health care and culture, parts of our long heritage are also linked with different elements of biodiversity. In consonance with global effort of increasing awareness for conserving biodiversity, Unnayan Onneshan, a policy research organization has started to publish a monthly newsletter on Biodiversity and natural resource management. The newsletter named as CBD Watch, will act as a knowledge bank for country’s rich but continuously decreasing bio-diversity resources that could otherwise be used as a sustainable tool to the endemic poverty of the vast majority of the population. The inaugural issue of the CBD Watch has mainly presented an overview the importance of bio-diversity for sustaining lives and livelihood of the people.