Sharif A. Mukul, Mohammed Alamgir, Md. Shawkat Islam Sohel, Petina L. Pert et al.
The Sundarbans, in southern coastal Bangladesh, is the world's largest surviving mangrove habitat and the last stronghold of tiger adapted to living in a mangrove ecosystem. Using MaxEnt (maximum entropy modeling), current distribution data, land-use/land cover and bioclimatic variables, we modeled ...
Sharif A. Mukul, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Niaz Ahmed Khan
People in the developing world derive a significant part of their livelihoods from various forest products, particularly non-timber forest products (NTFPs). This article attempts to explore the contribution of NTFPs in sustaining forest-based rural livelihood in and around a protected area (PA) of B...
Sharif A. Mukul, Md. Shawkat Islam Sohel, John Herbohn, Luis Inostroza et al.
Md. Shawkat Islam Sohel, Sharif A. Mukul, Benjamin Burkhard
Romel Ahmed, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Sharif A. Mukul et al.
A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Donna Craig, Sharif A. Mukul, Niaz Ahmed Khan
Sharif A. Mukul, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Shimona A. Quazi, Mohammed Belal Uddin et al.
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is a rather recent and widely promoted, and hence, accepted paradigm for managing protected areas in most developing countries. Protected area managers in Bangladesh face challenges because of the complex sociocultural and political dynamics that r...
Mohammed Alamgir, Sharif A. Mukul, Stephen M. Turton
Sharif A. Mukul, John Herbohn, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Mohammad Belal Uddin
Enforcement of the law is the most widely practiced strategy to prevent illegal logging in tropical developing countries, though the efficacy of such practice has often been questioned. We examined the effectiveness of forest law enforcement and different forms of economic incentives to curb the act...
Sharif A. Mukul, Mohammad Belal Uddin, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Jefferson Fox
Protected areas (PAs) represent a key global strategy in biodiversity conservation. In tropical developing countries, the management of PAs is a great challenge as many contain resources on which local communities rely. Collection and trading of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) is a well-establish...
Sharif A. Mukul
Mohammad Shaheed Hossain Chowdhury, Chloe Gudmundsson, Shigeyuki Izumiyama, Masao Koike et al.
Ronju Ahammad, Mohammed Kamal Hossain, Istiak Sobhan, Rakibul Hasan et al.
Bangladesh government has recently pledged to restore 0.75 million ha of degraded forestland as part of its commitment to the Bonn Challenge, however little is known about the potential challenges and opportunities involved in achieving that goal. Using secondary literature complemented by expert co...
Mohammad Belal Uddin, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Anke Jentsch, Sharif A. Mukul et al.
Introduction of exotic plant species in the tropics has occurred since the colonial period, and has mostly been for timber production. However, due to uncontrolled distribution and lack of awareness, many of these species became invasive, and have been increasingly reported as a source of threats to...
Sharif A. Mukul, Mohammed Belal Uddin, Mohammad Sharif Uddin, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan et al.
This paper reviews the present status of, challenges to, and prospects for protected areas (PAs) in Bangladesh. The purpose of the study was to provide up-to-date information on country's PAs to various national and international donor and conservation agencies. So far, a total of eighteen PAs have ...