The present situation of deforestation in Bangladesh.

Broad objective
The objective of this report is to inform readers about the present situation of deforestation in
Bangladesh. And also find out the main reason of deforestation.

Specific objective

To know the bad effect of deforestation in our life.

To identify some reason of deforestation.
To know the importance of greenery.
To encourage people save forests.

Hypothesis:

Question: Do you think urbanization and industrialization main reason of the

deforestation?

HA: Urbanization and industrialization main reason of the deforestation

Ho: Urbanization and industrialization could not main reason of the

deforestation

Question: Do you think illegal and the criminal timber trader reason of the
deforestation?

HA: Illegal and the criminal timber trader reason of the deforestation.

Ho: Illegal and the criminal timber trader could not reason of the
deforestation.

Question: Do you think lack of law and punishment reason of the deforestation?

HA: Lack of offense and punishment reason of the deforestation

Ho: Lack of offense and punishment reason could not of the deforestation
Questioner (Through using Likert scale):

1. Urbanization and industrialization main reason of the deforestation.

Strongly disagree

Disagree

Neither agree nor disagree

Agree

Strongly agree

2. Illegal and the criminal timber trader reason of the deforestation.

Strongly disagree

Disagree

Neither agree nor disagree

Agree

Strongly agree

3. Lack of law and punishment reason of the deforestation.

Strongly disagree

Disagree

Neither agree nor disagree

Agree

Strongly agree
Deforestation treat our environment, eco-systems.Government should more conscious and saved
our forest. Forest Help us economically,socially and balancing the ecology.
Deforestation denuding us of life
Illegal felling of trees continues unabated in our forests.

Deforestation has become a grave concern these days for the Bangladesh environmentalists who
are monitoring the trend and also the rate of change in climate and at the same time, its adverse
impacts. Even though there are laws, the smugglers with the help of influential individuals and
forest officials have been robbing the forests in different areas of the country unabated, including
those reserved ones in 28 locations. The concern is on the rise as media reports suggest that the
government offices and the law enforcement agencies are unable to tackle the situation.
Currently, as per the government data available, the country has around 13 percent of forest area.
A common understanding is that the figure is overestimated. But considering the extent of
urbanisation and industrialisation, we need to be very careful about the forest areas since we
cannot cover up the loss of greenery with anything else.We have laws to prevent such illegal acts
of felling trees indiscriminately for different 'purposes', mainly illegal logging and criminal
timber trade. We also have a number of projects undertaken by the government and international
agencies to raise and protect forests, mostly long-term plans. But in reality, the destroyers win,
and therefore, the outcome of the development projects simply lags behind the target.In this 21st
century Bangladesh, it is not very important to tell people and the government how greenery can
help us economically, socially and by balancing the ecology, most important for our survival.
Forests are vital source of biodiversity and livelihoods. But we still are in dark or indifferent to
the near future when the weather would go extreme and unpredictable, and rains-cyclones-floods
would hit us severely, and the birds and animals -- dependent on trees and plants -- will
disappear, diminishing the balance.The huge natural greenery in the Sundarbans, and the hilly
areas of Sylhet and the Chittagong Hill Tracts are the best resources of our environment that are
helping us by balancing the weather and resisting the adverse impacts of natural calamities.
Apart from the green groups, the government agencies too are concerned about the mass
deforestation taking place in all these areas while trees are being cut every now and then in other
places to feed the furniture industry and to use as firewood for the brick kilns and cooking at
rural households. Moreover, illegal logging involves other crimes such as poaching and robbery
in the forests which are dense and situated in remote areas.Green groups suggest that the
situation is grave mainly because of lax monitoring by the government, involvement of the forest
officials in smuggling logs and soft punishment for the offence. Moreover, lack of adequate
number of lawmen in the government's forest areas allures the smugglers to fell trees and sell
those.It is all about 'money'.On the contrary, every government undertakes laudable projects and
plans a better future when there would be enough greenery in the country. Many international
development partners and organisations join hands with the government and NGOs to prevent
deforestation and promote plantation. These plans involve millions of dollars which covertly line
the pockets of unscrupulous businessmen and influential individuals affiliated with political
parties, generally the ruling ones.Thus the plans appear to be 'show-off' by the governments and
the foreign financiers as if they are very much concerned about the environment. Take the
instance of the CHT, where the army is now holding discussions with the government officials
and locals to find ways to prevent deforestation by the smugglers; and in the Sundarbans, several
renowned international development partners have launched million dollar projects but the
smuggling of wood is on during even day time and the government is also mulling establishment
of a huge coal-based power plant while other mega establishments are putting threats on the
birds and animals at the world's largest mangrove forest. In Chittagong and Sylhet, brick kiln
owners, housing firms and industries are cutting down trees ever day.
We definitely need development through urbanisation and industrialisation, but at what cost?
We should not forget that our future is inextricably linked to forests. The social and economic
benefits they provide are essential to realising a sustainable century. A key litmus test of our
commitment to this future is our response to a growing global threat: illegal logging and the
criminal timber trade.Well! Such illegal and dystophian act has been taking place in other parts
of the world too, and thus, deforestation has become a global concern at this time.
According to the United Nations Environment Programme, more than 1.6 billion people depend
on forests for their livelihoods, including 60 million indigenous people who are wholly
dependent on forests. Forests are also natural carbon storage systems and key allies in combating
climate change. They are vast, nature-based water utilities assisting in the storage and release of
freshwater to lakes and river networks. Moreover, the loss of forests is responsible for up to 17
percent of all human-made greenhouse gas emissions, 50 percent more than that from ships,
aviation and land transport combined.There is increasing evidence that an important slice of
these losses and emissions is linked to illegal logging and organised crime in key tropical
countries of the Amazon basin, Congo Basin and Southeast Asia.Indeed, Green Carbon: Black
Trade, a recent report by the UNEP and the Interpol, estimates that illegal activity accounts for
50 to 90 percent of all logging in these key areas -- a criminal trade worth between $30 and 100
billion annually worldwide.Loggers and dealers quickly shift between regions and countries to
avoid local and international policing efforts, laundering wood by mixing it with legally cut
timber, or passing off wood originating from wild forests as plantation timber.With the increase
in organised criminal activity related to forests, crimes such as murder are also on the rise. The
growing involvement of criminal cartels should be of grave concern for communities,
companies, conservationists, and all forest stakeholders.Let's hope for a greener Bangladesh
when the government takes effectively comprehensive measures regarding the forests -- both to
protect and raise the greenery -- for a better future.

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