To reform Bangladesh's environment sector, focus on biodiversity conservation
Environment is one of three pillars of sustainable development, while society and economy are the other two.
3d ago
Why should Bangladesh have Sundarbans biosphere reserve?
Bangladesh does not have any of the 748 biosphere reserves spread all over the world.
2w ago
Bangladesh’s way forward to biodiversity conservation
Bangladesh needs to contextualise the global Biodiversity Plan to take it forward over the next decade or so.
2m ago
In tackling climate change, we must aim for just resilience
Climate change affects different groups of people differently creating further inequity in an already unjust society.
4m ago
Before COP29, let’s get our priorities in line
To get money from the L&D Fund, we need to prove that the losses and damages we face are due to climate change.
4m ago
Is our research supporting our policymaking?
The core purpose of academic research and publications can’t be appointing and promoting university teachers, or getting into university rankings.
5m ago
Integrating our conservation and adaptation approaches
Over the last five years, one approach took shape quite strongly in relation to climate change and biodiversity conservation, and that is Nature-based Solutions.
5m ago
Creating a community for conservation
While our country does have long co-management experience regarding land and inland waters, it doesn't have it for the sea.
6m ago
August 17, 2020
Providing permanent support to the people of Tanguar Haor
I always wanted to take two photographs of the same spot of Tanguar Haor—one in the driest month of the year and one in the wettest.
June 17, 2020
Desertification And Drought Day: The threat of parched land
Barsha-Kaal, or the rainy season, has officially arrived this week. If we were not shackled by Covid-19, we would have been welcoming monsoon with singing and dancing at public gatherings, arranging tree fairs, and planting hundreds and thousands of saplings all over the country. A perfect time to make our country greener!
June 5, 2020
It’s time for the Sundarbans
Well, the Sundar-bans has done it again! As it has been doing for hundreds of years. This time, it took the blow of super-cyclone Amphan and saved us from severe devastation.
June 3, 2020
Can climate action become the new normal?
Due to the pandemic, we are doing a lot of otherwise-unusual things—be it maintaining physical distance in public places,
May 20, 2020
Will nature conservation remain a priority in post-corona Bangladesh?
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed three alarming connections between us and nature.
April 21, 2020
Have faith in our researchers
Our current under-standing and response to the ongoing “corona crisis” are results of extensive, fast-track research. The possible transfer of the
April 2, 2020
Conservation delayed is conservation missed
In the middle of the devastating coronavirus crisis, we have come across some good news about the environment.
February 24, 2020
Can we overcome our academic inertia?
The first academic journal, Le Journal des Sçavans, was published on January 5, 1665 from Paris. Over the past three centuries—according to the latest STM Report 2018 by the International Association of Scientific,
February 18, 2020
Our missed opportunities
According to the Global Risks Report 2020 from the World Economic Forum (WEF), biodiversity loss is now the third most serious risk our world is facing in terms of impact.
January 28, 2020
Lots of research, not much communication
On May 29, 2014, soon after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the second volume of its massive Fifth Assessment Report, an interesting article was written in The Daily Star.
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