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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation (BECON)
The Goal of the BECON sector is to promote community-based ecosystem-friendly sustainable livelihood, conservation of biodiversity and the restoration of ecosystem services for sustaining livelihood of the marginalized poor in the coastal region of Bangladesh.
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Sub-sector |
Development intervention of the Environmental Governance & Ecosystem (EGE) Division |
| Environmental Governance & Ecosystem (EGE) |
Sector - 1: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation (BECON) |
1.1 Biodiversity and Nature Conservation |
- Advocacy for Conservation of Bio-diversity in the Sundarban Reserved Forest of Bangladesh: Global Greengrants Funds in collaboration with the Tides Foundation, USA, provided financial support for the project during 2001-2003, 2007.
- Conservation of Aquatic Biodiversity in the tidal wetlands of the South West Coastal Region of Bangladesh: The project was implemented in 2002 by the support of Rufford Small Grant (RSG) of the Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation, London, UK.
- Save Sundarban: Ensuring Peoples' Livelihood through Rights to Natural Resources: Funded by ActionAid Bangladesh in 2001, the project conducts a holistic campaign at local, national and international levels, for conserving bio-diversity and to ensure the culture and livelihood opportunities of the poor people traditionally dependant on forest related occupations.
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| 1.2 Ecosystem Conservation |
- The Sundarban Bio-diversity Conservation Project Watch Group (SBCP-Watch Group): CDP with the financial support from Action Aid Bangladesh had formed the SBCP Watch Group to critically review and monitor the implementation of the SBCP project of ADB. As a consequence of the criticism of the people and media campaign by SBCP-Watch Group, ADB suspended the project in September 2003. The project was later cancelled in January 2005.
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| 1.3 Coastal Zone Management |
- Awareness Creation among the shrimp Farmers on socially responsive and environment friendly shrimp culture in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh: The project was implemented by the support of World Fish Center in 2006.
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| 1.4 River management |
- Peoples River Commission (PRC) Movement
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| 1.5 Wetland Management |
- Conservation of Coastal Wetland in Southwest Region of Bangladesh: The project has been implemented during 2005 to 2006 by the support of the Small Grants for Wetlands Programme, Netherlands Committee for IUCN, The Netherlands.
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