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Expanding the Protected Area System to Incorporate Important Aquatic Ecosystems project

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Expanding the Protected Area System to Incorporate Important Aquatic Ecosystems project

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May, 2018

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Dr. Khandaker Anisul Huq Professor Fisheries and Marine Resource Technology Discipline Khulna University, Khulna-9208 Bangladesh
National Consultant, Biodiversity Friendly Sectoral Guideline Specialist (Tourism, Maritime Traffic and Industrial Development) UNDP EPASIIAEP Project

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Abstract

Aquatic mammals are very sensitive and one of the good indicators of climate changes. Now a day due to climate change and anthropogenic activities these animals are being threatened and some are going to be extinct, therefore global diversity of mammals are declining day by day. Here in the contrast of Bangladesh these species are generally threatened with extinction across their range. The possible causes for threatening dolphins include fishing activities, aquaculture into the meaningful boundary of cetacean sanctuary, aquatic pollution and climate change. Fry collection and over fishing in Sundarbans sanctuaries dramatically reduced the biodiversity, which affect on the food chain of dolphins. Additionally fishing net, dams and barrage construction on the migratory route restrict the movement of dolphins. In these circumstances this is the high time to take necessary initiation for the protection and conservation of cetacean’s species from extinct. Although many organizations around the world like IUCN, UNDP, AquaFish are continuously working on the protection and conservation of these aquatic and terrestrial organisms, and many regulations have been established on this issues. However, the problem is proper implementation of those regulations. Considering those problems the current research has been conducted with the aim to establish a biodiversity friendly guidelines on fisheries for the wildlife sanctuaries that will focus the level of fishing activities in the ecologically meaningful boundaries of cetaceans sanctuaries in sunderbans and also to find out the gap of policy implementation in fisheries management related to cetaceans, create alternative livelihood of coastal fisher communities as well as increasing awareness of the resource users in Sunderbans.

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Dr. Khandaker Anisul Huq Professor Fisheries and Marine Resource Technology Discipline Khulna University, Khulna-9208 Bangladesh;National Consultant, Biodiversity Friendly Sectoral Guideline Specialist (Tourism, Maritime Traffic and Industrial Development) UNDP EPASIIAEP Project

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Dr. Khandaker Anisul Huq Professor Fisheries and Marine Resource Technology Discipline Khulna University, Khulna-9208 Bangladesh;National Consultant, Biodiversity Friendly Sectoral Guideline

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