CONSERVATION PRIORITIZATION FOR THE WILD TIGERS IN THE BANGLADESH SUNDARBANS

摘要

This paper attempts to explain the wildlife science-based tiger conservation pathway that integrates the keystone-umbrella species concept, landscape ecology and geographic information systems as major components to effectively devise wild tiger conservation priorities for the Bangladesh Sundarbans. The Bengal tiger is the national icon of Bangladesh, with high cultural, aesthetic and spiritual value even for people with little or no interest in biodiversity conservation. With an improved government institutional framework, the tigers of Bangladesh have recently entered into the statistically rigorous and conceptually unified sampling-based conservation regime. There is hope that the Bangladesh government will positively react to this scientific advancement pertaining to the tigers of the Sundarbans.