Forest in Bangladesh

Forest sector is a very important sector in Bangladesh. The economy of Bangladesh is mainly depending on the forest. Every year Bangladesh earn a huge quantity money from this sector. Bangladesh is located on the second biggest river organization in the world, which drains an area of 1,086,000 square kilometers from China, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. This single location results in annual flooding of about 50% of the country's land area. At 150 million people and growing, gaps in policy, and incompatible institutional mandates, 90% of Bangladesh's natural forests and 50% of its fresh-water wetlands are gone or tainted.
USAID's assistance focuses on conservation of natural resources and expanding broad-based economic opportunities. USAID has developed a model that devolves environmental management to local communities, whose lives are directly or indirectly dependent on natural capital. USAID sponsored co-management projects have created a successful model of co-management in freshwater ecosystems and forests, but have had a relatively modest geographic coverage. USAID's goal over the next five years is to achieve recognition and acceptance of the co-management approach by the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and integration of co-management into the government's management tactics. Integrated activities will result in:

 Development of a co-management plan that applies to all ecosystems, including those slight freshwater and forest ecosystems;
 Over 50 protected areas managed with USAID support openly benefiting two and a half million people;
 GOB support to share park fees with limited communities to finance conservation efforts and support eco-friendly jobs development and
 Additional 350,000 hectares co-managed by communities and the GOB.

Natural Beauty of Bangladesh

Bangladesh is full of natural beauty and resources. Bangladesh is the most beautiful country of the world. There is no green country in the world except Bangladesh. Bangladesh lies between latitudes 20° and 27°N, and longitudes 88° and 93°E.

Bangladesh is in the low-lying Ganges–Brahmaputra River Delta or Ganges Delta. This delta is formed by the confluence of the Ganges (local name Padma or Pôdda), Brahmaputra(Jamuna or Jomuna also known as "Yamuna"), and Meghna rivers and their respective tributaries. The Ganges unites with the Jamuna (main channel of the Brahmaputra) and later joins the Meghna to eventually empty into the Bay of Bengal. The alluvial soil deposited by these rivers has created some of the most fertile plains in the world. Bangladesh has 57 trans-boundary rivers, making water issues politically complicated to resolve – in most cases as the lower riparian state to India. Most parts of Bangladesh are less than 12 m (39.4 ft) above the sea level, and it is believed that about 10% of the land would be flooded if the sea level were to rise by 1 m (3.28 ft).

In south east Bangladesh experiments have been done since the sixties to 'build with nature'. By implementing cross dams, the natural accretion of silt has created new land. With Dutch funding, the Bangladeshi government began to help develop this new land in the late 1970s. The effort has since become a multiagency operation building roads, culverts, embankments, cyclone shelters, toilets and ponds, as well as distributing land to settlers. By fall 2010, the program will have allotted some 27,000 acres (10,927 ha) to 21,000 families.