| Tiger Conservation in the Sundarbans: Phase- I
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Project location: Katka-Kachikhali areas of the Sundarbans, Bangladesh
Project Period: 1999-2000
Funded by: British Council-Dhaka and the British Petroleum |
Background: |
| The Bengal Tiger is a critically endangered animal in Bangladesh. Once it used to be found roaming about many districts of Bangladesh but now the species is restricted only in the Sundarbans, the mangrove forests in the south-western region of Bangladesh. Scanty studies and conservation initiatives have so far been taken as regards its conservation by the Forest Department (FD) as well as other organizations. In the year 1999, IUCN Bangladesh undertook the responsibility of initiating a research project towards initiating in situ tiger conservation in the Sundarbans. Supported financially by the British Council-Dhaka and the British Petroleum jointly, IUCN Bangladesh completed the study duly in 2001. |
Project objective: |
| Ecological study of the Bengal Tiger - Panthera tigiris tigris. |
Approach: |
| A five-member research team conducted and completed the fieldwork. Two full-time research fellows spent two weeks of a month in the field to collect relevant data. Subsequently, the data were analyzed and the findings compiled as a report to be published. |
Activities : |
(i) Data collection on ecological information
(ii) Meeting and consultation with the FD personnel, local people, forest resource users etc.
(iii) Data analysis, report preparation and publication |
Outcome: |
1 M.Sc thesis paper on the “ecology of mammalian prey species of Bengal tiger in the Sundarbans”.
2 M.Sc thesis paper on the “ecology and behaviour of the Spotted Deer-Cervus axis in the Sundarbans”.
3 Book: Bengal Tiger in the Bangladesh Sundarbans. |
For further information, please contact:
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Country Representative |
| IUCN - The World Conservation Union |
Bangladesh Country Office House # 11, Road # 138
Gulshan - 1, Dhaka - 1212
Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2- 9890395, 9890423
Fax: 880 -2 - 9892854
E-mail: nishat@iucnbd.org
Web: www.iucnbd.org |
