The causes of forest cover loss in the hill forests in Bangladesh |
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| Authors: | Md Abdus Salam Toshikuni Noguchi Masao Koike |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh;(2) Department of Forest Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Shinshu University, Minamiminowa, Nagano-ken 399-4598, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The Hill Forests in Bangladesh have been depleted and degraded in volume, area, and quantity, thus requiring urgent forest
protection by identifying the causes of forest loss. This study seeks to identify the fundamental causes of the shrinking
forest cover in the Hill Forests in Bangladesh. The results indicate four sets of causes: (i) indigenous forest dwellers,
having their own types of problems; (ii) migrants, who, because of problems in their places of origin, have decided to move
to the forests; (iii) the timber industry, which, legal or not, are cutting too many trees; and (iv) the government through
its Forest Department which is not able or willing to implement suitable policies to regulate the cutting trees and to prevent
illegal cutting. Because it is a time consuming task to mitigate the first and second sets of factors, we recommend to involve
forest dwellers in forestry practices as much as possible and taking necessary steps to alleviate the third and fourth sets
and thereby reduce the rate of forest depletion. Accordingly, a number of strategies that should be adopted to halt the loss
of remaining forest cover are discussed.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | Hill Forests forest management illegal logging encroachment population pressures Bangladesh |
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