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A window into wildlife

Book documenting country's animals, birds launched

Staff Correspondent
Country's wildlife resources are disappearing fast, and therefore, it is necessary to conserve the biodiversity, said speakers yesterday.
Moreover, the biodiversity has to be conserved for the wellbeing of people living now and in the generations to come, they added.
They made the comments at the launch of a book titled,' Photographic guide to the wildlife of Bangladesh", in the auditorium of Channel i, a private television station.
Eminent wildlife expert Prof Dr Monirul H Khan of Jahangirnagar University, who has been working on the wildlife
of Bangladesh for the last 20 years, wrote the book.
The book has incorporated a total of 1,384 photographs featuring 79 species of mammals, 516 species of birds, 103 species of reptiles and 46 species of amphibians. Moreover, the book contains the description of how to recognise the wildlife as well as the map of their natural habitat.
Also, the book contains a checklist and informative descriptions of all wildlife including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians that have so far been detected in Bangladesh.
Aranyak Foundation published the book containing488 pages while Prokriti O Jibon Foundation, a non-government organisation working on the country's nature and wildlife, supported the initiative.
Monirul said researchers from government and nongovernment sectors will be benefited from this book as he tried to give detailed information.
’Wildlife in the natural forest is like a child on mother's lap, ’ he said, urging all to conserve natural forest.
Emphasising the importance of wildlife, Enam UI Haque, president of Bangladesh Bird Club, said the book will play a good role in terms of conserving wildlife.
Mamunur Rashid, eminent theatre personality and actor, said the word development scares him these days as the development has become synonymous with the destruction of nature.
Raquibul Amin, country representative of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), said conservation is not the duty of the government alone; nongovernment sector will also have to work to conserve natural resources.
Farid Uddin Ahmed, executive director of Aranyak Foundation, said though Bangladesh is a very small country, it is very rich in wildlife.
Many things are disappearing even before knowing what the country has, he added.
Mukit Mazumder Babu, chairman of Prokriti O Jibon Foundation, said when Bangladesh is destroying its greeneries indiscriminately, Middle Eastern countries are trying to make their countries look greener spending millions of dollar.