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| Ashraf, M.A. | |
| The Eco-Political Perspective: Tiger Conservation in Bangladesh as Case Study | |
| 2010 Tigerpaper (37): 20-24 | |
Wild tigers are the largest terrestrial carnivores in the felid guild and are facing extinction due to various anthropogenic impacts in the tropical belt. This obligate mega-fauna remains endangered despite the large-scale global conservation efforts for the past several decades to revive its dwindling populations, which are scattered across 10-11 countries in South and South-East Asia and Russia's Amur region. Tigers now live in an increasingly human-dominated heterogeneous landscape mosaic that has become fragmented or too small to support viable breeding populations for long-term survival. The exception appears to occur in the case of the Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem, which is the last stronghold for the wild tiger subspecies _Panthera tigris tigris_, commonly known as Bengal tiger in Bangladesh. This is a unique, relatively unfragmented ecosystem and has significant socio-economical and ecological values, thus receiving considerable conservation attention from government and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for the past few decades. This paper primarily focuses on the political dimension surrounding tiger conservation in the Sundarbans and its long-term implications on society, culture, sustainability and the biodiversity of Bangladesh. |
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