IUCN-The World Conservation Union
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The Tanguar Haor, in northeastern Bangladesh, is part of a wetland/floodplain complex. During the monsoon season it is entirely under water. In the dry season waters recede into the rivers and cover about 25-30% of the area. These bodies of water attract many waterfowl during the winter season and are also an important breeding ground of many species of fish. Tanguar Haor provides immediate subsistence and livelihoods to some 40,000 people residing in its ...
Biological resources play a crucial role worldwide in national development. This will be specially important in coming years due to recent development in biotechnology such as genetic engineering. Therefore, biological resources existing in Nepal should be managed and used as a national property. We should be proud that although Nepal covers not more than 0.1 percent of the world's area, it supports much higher proportion of earth's ...
The present volume on Herpetofauna will significantly add to the sparse literature on what must be seen as a highly endangered and yet a most useful and enigmatic group in nature's bountiful diversity. Reptiles have always held human imagination with some awe, almost bordering on a living fear of their cold blooded, crawling and creepy character. While much of this fear is based on ignorance, responsible for a good deal of unnecessarily cruel and reckless human ...
The book focuses on: i. The status of the habitat of the Bengal tiger in the Bangladesh Sundarbans; ii. Biological details of the tigers in the Sundarbans mangrove forest; iii. The status of the principal prey species of the Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans; iv. The human-tiger interaction in the Sundarbans with a view to minimize conflicts; and v. the ways for improved management and conservation of the Bengal tigers as well as their habitat, the Sundarbans. The ...