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| Khan, M.M.H.; Ahsan, M.M.; Jhala, Y.V.; Ahmed, Z.U.; Paul, A.R.; Kabir, M.J.; Morshed, H.M.; Hossain, A.N.M. | |
| Bangladesh Tiger Action Plan 2018-2027 | |
| 2018 Full Book | |
The Bangladesh Tiger Action Plan (BTAP) is a policy-level document that offers a structured approach to achieving long-term conservation of tigers in Bangladesh. The first version of BTAP was for the period 2009-2017 and this updated version is for the period 2018-2027. It provides a vision, goals and objectives to guide an integrated and focused tiger conservation programme. The vision is to ensure 'protected tiger landscapes in Bangladesh, where wild tigers thrive at optimum carrying capacities so as to perform their ecological role, and which continue to provide essential ecological services to mankind'. The main goals to address threats are to increase the current iger population, maintain sufficient prey and habitat, and ensure a suitable tiger population in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and to address challenges are to improve conservation capacity, improve law enforcement, build capacity and proper mechanism for awareness and education programmes as well as community involvement, build capacity to conduct tiger conservation research and monitoring, and encourage collaboration. The implementation of this BTAP will ensure that the nation attempts to sustain the current tiger occupancy in over 6,017 sq. km. and increase the density in the Sundarbans from the current 2.17 to 4.50 tigers per 100 sq km within the next ten years, thereby contributing to the GTRP commitments by the country. Systematic monitoring and evaluation of progress against the BTAP goals will be done to enable the adaptation of conservation activities. The Bangladesh Forest Department, under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, is the primary custodian of the forest and its wildlife, but the immense task of tiger conservation necessitates support and expertise outside the normal regime of forest management. Therefore, the establishment of a Bangladesh Forest Department-led platform that facilitates collaboration for the implementation of conservation activities will be fundamental to its success. |
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