Mangrove Conservation & Restoration in Bangladesh

Once there were plenty of mangroves in the Sundarbans periphery that created a buffer zone which was beneficial for coastal protection as well as for habitat of the wild animals and birds. By the passage of time the mangrove forests have been destroyed for many man made activities. Local community harvests the forest resources and collects the seeds for using as fuel. They did that type of work without knowing the importance of mangroves.

BEDS is trying to aware the coastal communities for planting mangrove by introducing community based mangrove restoration (CBEMR). Now people are concern in mangrove restoration. They come and work together to from a forest. BEDS provide the logistic support like bamboo, net, rope etc. to them. Local communities are now participating in social mapping programme and planting mangroves in their riverside plots. BEDS think that if community is engaged in restoration programme the forest will be survived and from the forest they will be benefited more. New income will be generated and they can improve their livelihood.

Mangrove plantation and raising it at the age of stable position is not a easy task. Natural re generation process of mangrove may hamper due to lot of natural and anthropogenic reason. That’s why systematic plantation of the mangrove require continues monitoring and maintenance.

BEDS has been working the for the mangrove restoration since 2013 at coastal region of Bangladesh. To protect the coastal embankment BEDS has been planting the mangrove. Only plantation is not the main work BEDS is doing. For the sustainability of the planted mangrove BEDS always follow the monitoring rules with written format. Survivability of the mangrove, growth and diameter of the mangrove are measured during the monitoring part. Moreover, the appearance of the new mangrove species as well as biodiversity were also counted in this monitoring sector. 3 months interval this document is prepared so that BEDS can easily monitored the process of a successful plantation of a restored area.

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