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Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh

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The Sundarbans are one of the most significant mangrove forests in Asia. Due to both lack of information and lack of capacity to conduct conservation planning in response to climate change, an essential component of future conservation work in the region will be to develop strong climate-sensitive indicators of conservation requirements. One of these can be freshwater dolphin populations, which integrate climate-related changes from the mountains to the sea and can thus inform adaptive resource management. Considering both the vital importance of the Sundarbans mangrove forest for sustaining livelihoods and biodiversity, as well as the region’s extreme vulnerability to climate change, freshwater dolphin ecology offers a way forward to prioritize aquatic conservation activities in the region.

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  • Mangrove Forest
  • Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Ganges River
  • Farakka Barrage
  • Wildlife Conservation Society

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  1. Wildlife Conservation Society’s Asian Freshwater and Coastal Cetacean Program., Bangladesh

    Brian D. Smith (director)

  2. education for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bangladesh Cetacean Diversity Project (BCDP), Bangladesh

    Elisabeth Fahrni Mansur (director)

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  1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  2. environmental politics at Brandeis University and the Fletcher School at Tufts University, USA

    Charles C. Chester (assistant professor) (assistant professor)

  3. Wildlife Conservation Society, USA

    Molly S. Cross (coordinator) (coordinator)

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Smith, B.D., Mansur, E.F. (2012). Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh. In: Hilty, J.A., Chester, C.C., Cross, M.S. (eds) Climate and Conservation. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-203-7_12

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