Kamrul Islam, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Biswajit Nath, Tapan Kumar Nath
The degraded Chunati wildlife sanctuary (CWS) has undergone various land use changes since 1980s. In this study, land use changes of CWS were assessed from 2005 to 2015 by using Landsat TM and Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS images. The ArcGIS v10.1 and ERDAS Imagine v14 were used to process satellite imageries ...
Kamrul Islam, Md. Farhadur Rahman, Mohammed Jashimuddin
MF Rahman, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Islam Kamrul, Tapan Kumar Nath
Geoinformatics approach is increasingly used to monitor land use change as well as forest fragmentation due to availability of Landsat satellite data. In Bangladesh many initiatives have been taken to prepare land use maps but forest fragmentation modelling is quite new. In this research, geoinforma...
Kamrul Islam, Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Md. Farhadur Rahman
In order to reduce peoples’ dependency on forests, to improve their livelihoods, and to conserve forest resources a number of protected areas (PA) in Bangladesh has been brought under PA co-management. In this study, we examined the dependency of forest dependent communities (FDC) on forests, and th...
Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
Khandakar Showkat Osman, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Shamima Haque, Sohag Miah
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain et al.
Forest protected area co-management, which is viewed as an effective forest conservation strategy in many parts of the world, got rooted in Bangladesh in 2004. Nevertheless, its success in maintaining healthy status of forest landscapes is subject to strong challenges in Bangladesh where anthropogen...
Mohammed Jashimuddin, Kazi Mohammad Masum, Mohammed Abdus Salam
Kamrul Islam, Mohammed Jashimuddin
Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
This study was conducted to investigate the historical management system of village common forests (VCF) in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh and observe the current issues related to their sustainability. The study on historical context was based on secondary information to establish t...
Mohammed Jashimuddin, Makoto Inoue
This study follows the introduction of community forestry in Bangladesh and uses secondary information sources to analyze its effectiveness as a means of fostering sustainable forest management. We found that current forest management practices in Bangladesh have evolved from an emphasis primarily o...
Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman, Md. Abdullah Al Mahmud, Mohammad Shahidullah, Tapan Kumar Nath et al.
Many forest reserves in Bangladesh have been converted to protected areas (PAs) to conserve the forests resources from further depletion. This study has investigated if such initiatives have improved the state of biodiversity of these PAs amid tremendous anthropogenic pressure on forest resources. W...
Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Md Shahjahan et al.
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Kamrul Islam et al.
Forest Protected Area (PA) co-management, which integrates local communities in the forest management structures, was started in Bangladesh in 2004 to effectively manage and conserve forest resources. This study has investigated if the initiative has met its objectives. Using NDVI maps, we applied a...
Tapan Kumar Nath, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Md. Kamruzzaman, Vaskar Mazumder et al.
The Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS), a degraded protected area in southeastern Bangladesh, had been under comanagement since 2004. This study examined phytosociological characteristics and diversity of trees in CWS and discussed villagers’ opinions on the impact of comanagement on forest conservati...