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| Aziz, M.A.; Ahmad, I.U.; Dey, T.K.; Hossain, M.A.; Islam, M.A.; Child, T.; Greenwood, C.J.; Barlow, A.C.D. | |
| Bangladesh Tiger Action Plan 2009-2017: Threat assessment | |
| 2011 Full Book | |
The Bangladesh Tiger Action Plan (BTAP) has been developed to provide guidelines for Sundarbans and tiger conservation efforts over the next eight years from 2009 to 2017. However, an additional assessment and ranking of threats is needed to help focus conservation activities under the BTAP. The objectives of this study were therefore to (1) set the project scope and conservation targets, (2) assess the viability of the conservation targets, (3) identify and rank threats to the conservation targets, and (4) set a timeline for threat reduction. To do this we used MIRADI software and an approach of threat assessment developed by The Nature Conservancy. The project scope was set as the Sundarbans Reserved Forest and, within that scope, the conservation targets were set as tiger, prey, and habitat. The indicators for tiger, prey, and habitat were judged to be fair to very good, but with most indicators in need of improvement to reach desired target states. A total of 24 threats were identified; four were linked to tigers, two to prey, and 18 to habitat. Tiger poaching, prey poaching, sea level rise, upstream water extraction/divergence, wood collection, and fishing and harvesting aquatic resources were the highest ranked threats. The threats scheduled for reduction in the short-term (2009-2017) were tiger poaching, stray tiger killing, tiger disease, prey poaching, prey disease, wood collection, and fishing and harvesting aquatic resources, and livestock grazing. There were a further two threats scheduled for medium-term reduction (2009-2017), five threats for long-term reduction (2026+), and nine were unscheduled pending further research. The BTAP threat assessment should be considered preliminary because of the dearth of information on many of the threats. Future versions of the threat assessment will be periodically updated to reflect new findings. The next steps will be (1) to develop a research agenda based on information needs highlighted in the threat assessment, and (2) create threat solutions documents to outline the strategies for dealing with each threat. |
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