Natural Resource Management

Having more than 56 Protected Areas (PA) of different categories, Bangladesh is a naturally enriched country of diverse ecosystems, and vast floral and faunal resources. These PAs, serving as the most important zones in the country for conservation of wildlife biodiversity, are maintained and managed under the jurisdiction of Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD). However, with …

KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND DEVELOPING PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN FIVE PA’S IN BANGLADESH TO CONSERVE WILDLIFE (SRCWP) Read More »

The Country Environmental Assessment, jointly conducted by the Bangladesh government and the World Bank, has identified air pollution as the leading cause of mortality and morbidity related to environmental issues in Bangladesh. In fact, the severity of the crisis and the health burden of air pollution has been found to be comparable to that of …

COMBATING AIR POLLUTION WITH CLEAN AIR AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT (CASE) PROJECT Read More »

Raising public awareness on the dire necessity of planting, researching and conserving the varied and rare plant species of Bangladesh, POJF continues to inspire the mass people towards tree plantation and floral conservation with its ‘Tree Plantation & Informative Tree Name Plating’ program. Carried on since 2009 at diverse floral biodiversity hotspots of the country, …

TREE PLANTATION & TREE NAME-PLATING Read More »

The world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans support Asia’s last two remaining species of freshwater dolphins – the Endangered Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica), and the Vulnerable Irrawaddy Dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris). Both species are classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. To conserve these endangered River Dolphin Species, POJF in association with …

AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO CONSERVE ENDANGERED RIVER DOLPHINS IN SUNDARBANS Read More »