What are the threats to wildlife in Nepal and Bangladesh?

Question

What are the threats to wildlife in Nepal and Bangladesh?

Answer 1

actually the people in nepal cutting down the trees & poaching made enormous disturbance to the animals.... the government is not taking any action by their activities...

Answer 2

The country comprises only about 0.09 per cent of the terrestrial area of the earth, but it harbors high share of species richness, for example, 9.3  percent (844 species) of bird species; 5.1 percent (853 species) of Bryophytes; 5.1 percent (28 species including cultivated) of Gymnosperms; 4.5 percent (181 species) of Mammals; 3.4 percent (380 species) of Pteridophytes; 2.7 percent (5,856 species) of Angiosperms; 2.6 percent (2,893 species) of Butterflies and Moths, 2.6 percent (687 species) of Algae of the world.



Nepal's biodiversity is threatened due to cumulative effect of socio-economic status, ecological degradation and  political instability. Nepal is facing the selective as well as general alteration in the composition of ecosystems in respect of their structure and functions. Massive changes in landscape use are creating more abundant recessional patches, reductions in population sizes, and in the worst cases, losses of species that ultimately result in species extinction. Clearing forest lands for agricultural purposes, abandonment of agriculture lands, and disturbance of vegetation by natural causes are the major paths that change habitats. Some important natural disturbance agents/factors are fire, landslides, earthquakes, herbivores, pathogens, non-natural species and pollution

Classified by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as "endangered," the greater one-horned rhino faces a very high risk of extinction in the near future due tohuman impact.

Bangladesh

Fresh water dolphins have slowly but surely disappeared from the rivers of Bangladesh in the past decade due to mangrove deforestation and toxic contamination of its rivers. The government is making efforts to save the dolphins with funds from the United Nations Development Fund and support from the IUCN.

Bangladesh is likely to earn huge amounts from natural gas fields that have been leased to over a dozen international companies, but it will be at enormous ecological cost,.

Bangladesh is facing a very serious loss of green cover and extinction of wildlife species. With the sharp increase in the population, forest were cleared for cultivation and settlements. About 16 percent of Bangladesh was under forest cover in 1947. But like elsewhere in the region, the forest cover here too has shrunk to nine percent.

Cyclones & floods add to the problem of submerged lands &

loss of plants & animals.

Taking advantage of the loopholes in the Wild life act of 1973 the poachers have been hunting down the tiger, deer, lizards, snakes and other animals whose skins are very costly and in high demand abroad.

Answer 3

when you talk about wild life of particular areas like Nepal and Bangladesh it depends upon the type of wild life and type of ecosystem and threats are related to the community which lives there and depends upon forest in some cases anti-social elements like militants.

otherwise the threats are poaching and hunting

using the land for other purpose then for forest

change in land use

and type of pollution they have

there are several factors like degradation of land felling and cutting of trees mis-management  of forest thats waht happen every where.

Answer 4

The biggest threat to wildlife in Nepal and Bangladesh are shrinking habitat i.e. cutting down of forest and poaching for food and international market. Due to maoist insurgency government is not being able to take right steps for conservation.

Population explosion again a big threat and more and more people are going out to hunt for food. Food in both the cultures is more towards non vegetarian side and so killing animals is high.

Economic conditions of both the countries are not good and this leads to lack of resources required for conservation. As such local governments are not very interested to do anything for wildlife since they have to cater to needs of poor in the country.