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The diversity in ecosystems has given Bangladesh a unique character as it harbors a wide spectrum of flora and fauna. Wetland ecosystems are playing a vital role for survival of human by providing clean water for drinking, water for agriculture, cooling water for the energy sector, safeguarding biodiversity and regulating flood through facilitating...
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... were also asked if they had any AIGAs to earn money for the family and if they could contribute to take important decisions, like sending kids to schools and having micro-credit from NGOs. The summary of the exercise is presented in Table 4.1. The information as obtain from the quick appraisal clearly potrays that, a female with income made through AIGAs were more powerful in taking decisions in the family than the one with no income. ...Context 2
... the diary of a tourist guide at Golabari Uttor Sripur, the Table 4.2 has been prepared. Table 2, a single tourist guide had 41 teams of tourist in a calendar year where each day fee for the guide was BDT 1,000-BDT 1,200. ...Context 3
... tourists have felt the need of healthy sanitation facility in the area. Table 4.2 also gives information of the length of stay in the haor area. In most cases, the tourists do not stay beyond 2 days. ...Context 4
... were also asked if they had any AIGAs to earn money for the family and if they could contribute to take important decisions, like sending kids to schools and having micro-credit from NGOs. The summary of the exercise is presented in Table 4.1. The information as obtain from the quick appraisal clearly potrays that, a female with income made through AIGAs were more powerful in taking decisions in the family than the one with no income. ...Context 5
... the diary of a tourist guide at Golabari Uttor Sripur, the Table 4.2 has been prepared. Table 2, a single tourist guide had 41 teams of tourist in a calendar year where each day fee for the guide was BDT 1,000-BDT 1,200. ...Similar publications
A commented list of the species of amphibians and reptiles with type localities in the state of Guerrero, Mexico is presented. A total of 120 species have been described in the state: 47 amphibians (34 anurans, 13 caudates) and 73 reptiles (38 lizards and 35 snakes) and additionally the type locality restriction of two species of turtles to the sta...
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... Although eastern forests are widely ruled out for small-clawed otter, they have been regarded to hold the country's other two (and similarly little-studied) otter species: the smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) and Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) [IUCN Bangladesh Red List of Threatened Species: Khan (2015b), Feeroz (2015)]. The basis for this perspective has not been detailed anywhere. ...
... Recently, Shashoto and Yoxon (2020) documented smooth-coated otters from riverine grassland-sandbar mosaics of the Ganges, a previously undescribed locality and provided insight into the size of the population residing there. In comparison with the known ecology of the smooth-coated and Eurasian otters (Roos, et al., 2015;Khoo, et al., 2021), although Khan (2015b) and Feeroz (2015) considered the possibility, plausibility might be slim for NE reserves to harbour these two species. ...
For three of the four Oriental otters that live in Bangladesh, as of early 2022, four pertinent peer-reviewed studies were conducted in the country. The distribution of the country's otters, because of the dearth of empirical evidence, is made of guesswork and yet to be scientifically understood. Subsequently, eastern forests although a part of the globally recognized range of the small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) are not accredited in Bangladesh for the species and are not receiving any conservation investment. This study, for the first time, provided evidence of the relict populations of small-clawed otters in eastern Bangladesh. A survey on terrestrial carnivore mammals was carried out between January and October 2021 in four northeastern forest reserves that found the species in three reserves, with 132 notionally independent events from a sampling effort of 3629 camera-trap nights. The activity rhythm of nocturnal-crepuscular otters leaned more towards dawn. The work highlights (i) the potential of the small-clawed otter as an umbrella species for the traditionally ignored, trans-border riparian mixed-evergreen forests of northeastern Bangladesh; (ii) a great inconsistency between sources concerning its distribution in the country; (iii) the necessities to investigate the lack of this survey's records of smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) and Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra, no evidence in Bangladesh for 30 years) although the surveyed forest reserves are widely noted for both species; and (iv) the stark absence of any recent information on otter status in the adjacent Indian states (Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, and southern Assam) that, together with eastern Bangladesh, belong to an ecologically uncharted territory and form the western limit of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.
