Bangladesh: Formulation Of Wildlife Protection Act And Opinion Of Indigenous Peoples

Bangladesh: Formulation Of Wildlife Protection Act And Opinion Of Indigenous Peoples   The government has recently initiated passage of a fresh law styled “Wildlife Protection Bill-2010” by scrapping the present the Wildlife Protection Order-1973. Though the bill of this law was approved in the cabinet, but the government has not consulted with the indigenous communities who are generally depended on forest and the adivasis living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and other areas of the...

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