(Bangladesh) Indo-Bangla wildlife organisations agree to work for conserving tig

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7/16/2004

 

Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB) and India-based Global

Tiger Forum (GTF) have agreed to work together to conserve tigers

both in Bangladesh and India,reports UNB.

The consensus came at a meeting on tiger conservation, held in the

office of the Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh in city Thursday.

Addressing the meeting, GTF Secretary General SC Dey emphasised the

importance of raising public awareness through mass media to conserve

tigers in the region.

" Bangladesh should adopt participatory concepts and the inhabitants

of the Sundarbans be provided with alternative works to earn their

livelihoods by taking long-term measures to help conserve the

tigers, " he said.

He urged the Bangladesh government to preserve the tigers of the

Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, by enforcing the

existing laws relating to tiger conservation.

About the role of non-government organisations in protecting the

tigers, SC Dey called upon the concerned NGOs to come up with

programmes to conserve tigers through broader frameworks.

The WTB members at the meeting mentioned that its researchers joined

the recent tiger census in the Sundarbans. It would organise a

workshop for conversing tigers in collaboration with Zoo Outreach

Organization soon.

 

 

 

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