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| Pilot national program for tiger conservation in Bangladesh | |
| 2013 Full Book | |
A two-day workshop, jointly sponsored by the Bangladesh Forest Department, IUCN, Global Tiger Initiative and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, was convened in Dhaka on 18-19 March 2013 to develop a Pilot National Program (PNP) that defined specific goals, strategies and action steps for the next 3-5 years that support achieving the objectives set forth in the Bangladesh National Tiger Recovery Program. Around 100 participants from the Forest Department, universities, NGOs and community representatives worked in four thematic breakout groups: (1) Capacity building; (2) Wildlife crime control; (3) Tiger-human conflict resolution; and (4) Research and monitoring. Each group identified objectives, challenges, current status of activities, then prioritized policies and projects for action, articulated specific short- (0-3 years) and longer-term (3-5 years) action steps, identified responsible agencies/partners, estimated tentative budgets and suggested potential sources of funding. The results of these deliberations were used to create a shortlist of policies and projects to be reviewed by the Tiger Coordination Committee (TCC) and propose to the Ministry of Environment and Forest of Bangladesh for consideration for adoption and implementation as the first steps in implementing the PNP. Summary descriptions of six policy and seven project recommendations are provided below for TCC review and initiate government endorsement process to enhance tiger conservation in Bangladesh. |
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