Assessing Good Governance in Protected Areas (PA) Co-management: A Case Study of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forests of Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Abdus Subhan Mollick ◽  
Milton Roy ◽  
Nabiul Islam Khan ◽  
Wasiul Islam ◽  
Nazmus Sadath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Sundarbans Mangrove ◽  
The Sundarbans

scholarly journals Dictyota adnata Zanardini (Phaeophyceae) - A new record from the Sundarbans mangrove forests, Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-412
Author(s):  
Md Ariful Islam ◽  
Md Rashedul Islam ◽  
Abdul Aziz ◽  
Lawrence M Liao
Keyword(s):  
Brown Alga ◽  
New Record ◽  
Clayey Soil ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Mangrove Plants ◽  
Sundarbans Mangrove ◽  
The Sundarbans

Samples were collected from Arpangasia and Kholpetua rivers within the Sundarbans in Bangladesh during February to March and December 2018. Among several forms was found a tightly prostrate brown alga occurring on moist parts of mangrove plants and clayey soil. Flattened brownish thalli tightly attached to pneumatophores and lower parts of mangrove trunks, spreading and branching dichotomously, sometimes overlapping and attached by means of unbranched marginal and sub-marginal rhizoids were collected. Distinct marginal sori are well developed in fertile specimens. On the basis of these characters, the sample has been identified as Dictyota adnata Zanardini which is herein reported as a new record for Bangladesh.

scholarly journals Enhanced Shared Governance Improves the Collaborative Management of Protected Areas in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Geoffreys Matipano ◽  
Reinford Khumalo
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Collaborative Management ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Critical Success

A majority of protected areas are not being managed effectively enough to ensure the perpetuity of biological resources they contain due to impediments such as poor governance. This study focused on the experiences in the shared governance of people involved in partnership-managed protected areas and also on developing critical success factors in implementing such partnerships. The interpretivism approach was appropriate for this qualitative, inductive, descriptive, and exploratory three-case study that used in-depth interviews and open-ended quester-views with a purposive sample to generate data. In the early stages of the projects, the protected area shared governance was not stable and was characterized by many pitfalls because the concept of partnerships was new in Zimbabwe. It is important to develop guiding frameworks and build capacity that eliminates governance vacuum, ambiguity, deficiencies, overcrowding, redundancies, bureaucracy, and politics from the early stages of the partnerships. Community participation is crucial in the management and long-term sustainability of protected areas in developing countries. Further, governance reforms for the protected areas needed to recognize traditional and cultural sites in the project areas and develop governance types of the sacred sites formally attributed to the local ethnic indigenous people nested within project shared governance. Some critical success factors of well-shared governance of protected areas are in the text. However, all the principles of good governance may not be usable in one case study

scholarly journals Scratches on our sovereignty?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jayashree Vivekanandan
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservation Politics ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Transboundary Protected Area ◽  
Sundarbans Mangrove ◽  
The Sundarbans

English Abstract: The article critically examines the conservation politics in a transboundary protected area (TBPA) in South Asia, the Sundarbans mangrove forests in Bangladesh and India. It explores the reasons why, despite collaborative measures by the two states, conservation has largely tended to conform to sovereignty practices, making it top-down and exclusionary. This makes the very demarcation of territory for protected areas an intensely political act with significant implications for social equity. The article examines the cultural politics of conservation since contestations to state power have often entailed the articulation of popular sovereignty in the Sundarbans. It argues that the social sustainability of conservation will critically hinge on how issues of resource access and governance are framed, negotiated, and addressed.Spanish Abstract: El artículo examina críticamente la política de conservación en el Área Protegida Transfronteriza (APT): los Sundarbans en Bangladesh e India. Explora por qué, a pesar de la colaboración bilateral, la conservación ha tendido en gran medida a ajustarse a prácticas de soberanía vertical y excluyente. La sola demarcación territorial de las APT, se convierte en un fuerte acto político con implicaciones signifi cativas en la equidad social. El artículo examina la política cultural de la conservación, ya que las protestas al poder del Estado a menudo tienen implicaciones en la articulación de la soberanía popular en los Sundarbans. Argumenta que la sostenibilidad social de la conservación dependerá fundamentalmente de cómo se enmarquen, negocien y aborden las cuestiones de acceso a los recursos y su gobernanza.French Abstract: L’article analyse de manière critique la politique de conservation dans une aire protégée transfrontalière (APT) en Asie du sud, la forêt des mangroves des Sundarbans au Bangladesh et en Inde. Il explore les raisons pour lesquelles, malgré les instruments de coopération entre les deux États, la conservation a adopté des pratiques de souveraineté étatique qui l’ont rendue erticale et exclusive. La démarcation du territoire des aires protégées est un acte profondément politique qui a des implications en matière d´égalité sociale. L’article examine la politique de conservation à travers des actes contestaires vis-à-vis du pouvoir étatique qui ont souvent favorisé une articulation de la souveraineté populaire dans les Sundarbans. Il met en évidence que la durabilité sociale de la conservation dépend de l’encadrement, de la négociation et de la promotion des thèmes d’accès aux ressources et de la gouvernance.

scholarly journals Phenology and litterfall production of Bruguiera sexangula (Lour.) Poir. in the Sundarbans mangrove forests, Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Kamruzzaman ◽  
Sumonta K. Paul ◽  
Shamim Ahmed ◽  
Md. Salim Azad ◽  
Akira Osawa
Keyword(s):  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Litterfall Production ◽  
Sundarbans Mangrove ◽  
The Sundarbans

scholarly journals Proposed REDD+ project for the Sundarbans: Legal and institutional issues

1970 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Saiful Karim
Keyword(s):  
Mangrove Forest ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Forest Department ◽  
Forest Ownership ◽  
Institutional Issues ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
The Sundarbans

Sundarbans, a Ramsar and World Heritage site, is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world covering parts of Bangladesh and India. Natural mangroves were very common along the entire coast of Bangladesh. However, all other natural mangrove forests, including the Chakaria Sundarbans with 21,000 hectares of mangrove, have been cleared for shrimp cultivation. Against this backdrop, the Forest Department of Bangladesh has developed project design documents for a project called ‘Collaborative REDD+ Improved Forest Management (IFM) Sundarbans Project’ (CRISP) to save the only remaining natural mangrove forest of the country. This project, involving conservation of 412,000 ha of natural mangrove forests, is expected to generate, over a 30-year period, a total emissions reduction of about 6.4 million tons of CO2. However, the successful implementation of this project involves a number of critical legal and institutional issues. It may involve complex legal issues such as forest ownership, forest use rights, rights of local people and carbon rights. It may also involve institutional reforms. Ensuring good governance of the proposed project is very vital considering the failure of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded and Bangladesh Forest Department managed ‘Sundarbans Biodiversity Conservation Project’. Considering this previous experience, this paper suggests that a comprehensive legal and institutional review and reform is needed for the successful implementation of the proposed CRISP project. This paper argues that without ensuring local people’s rights and their participation, no project can be successful in the Sundarbans. Moreover, corruption of local and international officials may be a serious hurdle in the successful implementation of the project.

scholarly journals Phenological Traits, Litterfall Production, and Carbon Sequestration Rates of Major Three Species in the Sundarbans

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Kamruzzaman ◽  
Sumonta Kumar Paul
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Seasonal Pattern ◽  
Reproductive Phenology ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Flower Buds ◽  
Mangrove Species ◽  
Litterfall Production ◽  
Heritiera Fomes ◽  
Sundarbans Mangrove ◽  
The Sundarbans

Abstract BackgroundAttempt to compare the phonological pattern of the three mangrove species: Heritiera fomes, Bruguiera sexangula, and Xylocapus mekongensis in the Sundarbans mangrove forest by observing the litterfall data over 3 years.ResultsAll these three species showed highest litterfall of leaves and stipules in summer and lowest in winter. In case of B. sexangula, it also showed its second peak of leaves litterfall in the rainy season. Branch litterfall for the three species was occurred all over the year without having a distinct seasonal pattern. Flowering was observed in February – June and March - May for H. fomes and X. mekomgensis, respectively. Fruiting was observed for H. fomes and X. mekongensis in between the month of March – May and April – June respectively. Peak of mature fruit or seed litterfall was observed in July and August for both H. fomes and X. mekongensis respectively. Litterfall of flower buds, flowers and propagule for B. sexangula was observed throughout the year and peak flower buds, flowers, and propagule litterfall was found in the month of January, March, and July respectively. Kendall’s coefficient of concordance showed that all the organs of litterfall were concordant during the study period. Autocorrelation coefficient revealed that all the parts of litterfall followed a clear annual cycle except branches. Mean total litterfall was calculated 1014.6±12.7 g m-2 year-1 for H. fomes, 1047.3±21.3 g m-2 year-1 for X. mekongensis and 1640.2±14.1 g m-2 year-1 for B. sexangula of which leaves litterfall contributed more than 50% of total litterfall for all the three species. H. fomes, B. sexangula and X. mekongensis none of them exhibit any correlation between stipules litterfall and reproductive organs litterfall.ConclusionThe findings may contribute to an understanding of vegetative and reproductive phenology, litterfall production, and carbon sequestration rate of the major mangrove species in Sundarbans mangrove forests, and also its role in global C budgets.

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