Location: Moheshkhali
Partner: Leadership University College
Beneficiaries: Coastal Rural Dwellers
Projects Brief:
| Muslim Aid Australia and partner Leadership University College have undertaken a Mangrove Forest Protection project in Bangladesh. This project is directly relevant to MDG Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability. Mangrove preservation and plantation provide ecosystem protection from cyclone, flood, and waves resulting in non-soil erosion. It therefore, fulfils a very important role in pro-actively addressing a disaster mitigation mechanism. Additionally, these mangroves maintain the habitat for aquatic and terrestrial fauna and flora of Bangladesh, much of which support sustainability of local livelihoods in a direct and indirect manner, especially aquatic matters such as the mangrove areas being a breeding ground for a good number of the sea-life fished for consumption or for sale in the markets. |
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| Bangladesh is one of the coastal marginal countries of the Bay of Bengal, and Moheshkhali is a remote island about 250km south from Chittagong, close to the porous borders of Myanmar. Due to its distance from the major urban centres, the area is one of the least developed in Bangladesh, thereby making it one of the poorest areas. By that token this area is potentially at greater risk of environmental degradation due to pressures exerted by the poor whom eke out an existence from the sea and the coastal belt where their villages and communities are located. |
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