Bangladesh has 11.2pc forest area.

[Homo Sapiens]

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2016/11/07/52227/Bangladesh-has-11.2pc-forest-area
Published : 07 Nov 2016, 15:33:37
Bangladesh has 11.2pc forest area

Forests cover only 11.2 per cent of total land in Bangladesh. The country is among the countries with least forest areas in Asia.


An Asia News Network report on Monday revealed the information, reports UNB.

Laos tops the list with 92.1 per cent of that country’s land marked as forests, whereas Bangladesh, India, Mongolia and Pakistan are the countries having the least forest cover, says the report.

Bhutan (81.5), Brunei (79.7) and South Korea (63.7) are also among those Asian countries which have a leading forest area. Malaysia and Indonesia have also good share of forest land.

India’s forest cover is only 24.1 per cent of the total land area, even though in terms of total forest area that’s significantly higher than many other Asian countries.

Pakistan, on the other hand, fares poorly in terms of total forest area. The country has merely 1.9 per cent of its land area under forest cover.

According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation, the country lost 840,000 hectare of forest cover between 1990 and 2010 and the rate of loss of forests is 42,000 ha per year.

In terms of numbers, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia make up more than half of the forested lands in Asia, as per the Asian Development Bank 2016 data. China’s forest cover remains 24.8 per cent of the country’s land area, Indonesia’s is 62.7 per cent and Malaysia has 67.6 per cent.

While China is a major exporter of wood products, ranking first globally in wood-based panel production, Indonesia and Malaysia are top producers of tropical timbers.

Globally, forests cover 30 per cent of the total land area, according to the latest report from Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005, led by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

However, the world is still losing an area of forest equivalent to the total area of Bhutan, Fiji and Brunei Darussalam combined each year — or 200 km sq per day, as per the report.

Overall, Asia and the Pacific have lost around 10 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2005 or 1.1 per cent over 15 years, as per the latest data available. –RH
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[Homo Sapiens]

Govt. should take necessary steps to increase forest cover for 15 percent of total areas and maintain it.Given the high population density and need of vast agricultural production we perhaps can't afford to more than that.

 

[Bilal9]

If we could drive some squatters out of some rural char areas - the forest will grow back in less than ten/fifteen years. The whole region of Bangladesh (except maybe coastal areas) was dense 'śāl' forest like the Terai region in Nepal (similar to the Madhupur wildlife reserve North of Dhaka).

We have a wonderful blessing in the form of the weather (Intense Monsoon season) which most Northern areas of South Asia don't have. Nature has the capability to heal - all you have to do is strictly enforce forestry laws against the goondas and rogue elements in rural areas....

Thundershower over Dhaka....

 

[Homo Sapiens]

If we could drive some squatters out of some rural char areas - the forest will grow back in less than ten/fifteen years. The whole region of Bangladesh (except maybe coastal areas) was dense 'śāl' forest like the Terai region in Nepal (similar to the Madhupur wildlife reserve North of Dhaka).

We have a wonderful blessing in the form of the weather (Intense Monsoon season) which most Northern areas of South Asia don't have. Nature has the capability to heal - all you have to do is strictly enforce forestry laws against the goondas and rogue elements in rural areas....

Thundershower over Dhaka....

Bangladesh should accelerate the ongoing project of creating greenwall in the coastal region. It has twin benefit of protecting the coastal areas from cyclone as well as increasing the forest covers.

 

[Bad Guy]

India’s forest cover is only 24.1 per cent of the total land area, even though in terms of total forest area that’s significantly higher than many other Asian countries.

Yep, it's really big.
India’s forests are worth $1.7 trillion, more than the GDP of Russia or Canada

 

[bd_4_ever]

Problem is this will only get worse with Rampal plant.

Forestation is extremely important and the govt. needs to inaugurate several plans, projects, drives in conjunctions with providing incentives. The most effective way would be to involve local communities around the country and empowering them with adequate resources.

Generally speaking, if 160 million people each plant 1 tree, it'd make a lot of difference.

 

[mb444]

In my opinion Forests are a luxury that BD may not be able to maintain in massive tracts much longer.

We just have too much people and land are a premium.

However forests are the lungs of the country and govt must take take whatever steps it can to preserve them as much as possible.

Only way to protect them is to make them economically viable.... turn sundarbans in to international green tourist destination and it will survive and so will the animals.

Also we must introduce ecologically sound harvest of the forest.... for every tree cut down plant 3 off the same species...

It is a great shame .... I love greenary but forests in BD to survive needs concerted effort by all.

 

[bluesky]

But, look from above in a helicopter, you will see the entire Bangladesh, except the towns and cities, is covered with large forest spots within which the village houses are built here and there. It may not be like the Sunderban and it may not match the definition of forest, but the entire country is covered with millions of trees.

 

[Bilal9]

Problem is this will only get worse with Rampal plant.

Forestation is extremely important and the govt. needs to inaugurate several plans, projects, drives in conjunctions with providing incentives. The most effective way would be to involve local communities around the country and empowering them with adequate resources.

Generally speaking, if 160 million people each plant 1 tree, it'd make a lot of difference.

I'm hoping saner heads will prevail and the plant will be moved to somewhere where pollution will not affect the forestry cover. How about Sylhet or Mymensingh near the border?

 

[Bilal9]

 

[bd_4_ever]

I'm hoping saner heads will prevail and the plant will be moved to somewhere where pollution will not affect the forestry cover. How about Sylhet or Mymensingh near the border?

Yes a place away from Sunderbans, where the effect will be at its minimal could be encouraged. I dont, however, see that happening as it seems to be a done deal. The places you suggested could be viable options surely.

 

[bd_4_ever]

But, look from above in a helicopter, you will see the entire Bangladesh, except the towns and cities, is covered with large forest spots within which the village houses are built here and there. It may not be like the Sunderban and it may not match the definition of forest, but the entire country is covered with millions of trees.

What you state is mainly natural greenery and specks of trees all around the country. I dont think that can be counted as 'forest', which is usually a significant breeding ground for wildlife and rare species.

 

[AndrewJin]

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2016/11/07/52227/Bangladesh-has-11.2pc-forest-area
Published : 07 Nov 2016, 15:33:37
Bangladesh has 11.2pc forest area

Forests cover only 11.2 per cent of total land in Bangladesh. The country is among the countries with least forest areas in Asia.


An Asia News Network report on Monday revealed the information, reports UNB.

Laos tops the list with 92.1 per cent of that country’s land marked as forests, whereas Bangladesh, India, Mongolia and Pakistan are the countries having the least forest cover, says the report.

Bhutan (81.5), Brunei (79.7) and South Korea (63.7) are also among those Asian countries which have a leading forest area. Malaysia and Indonesia have also good share of forest land.

India’s forest cover is only 24.1 per cent of the total land area, even though in terms of total forest area that’s significantly higher than many other Asian countries.

Pakistan, on the other hand, fares poorly in terms of total forest area. The country has merely 1.9 per cent of its land area under forest cover.

According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation, the country lost 840,000 hectare of forest cover between 1990 and 2010 and the rate of loss of forests is 42,000 ha per year.

In terms of numbers, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia make up more than half of the forested lands in Asia, as per the Asian Development Bank 2016 data. China’s forest cover remains 24.8 per cent of the country’s land area, Indonesia’s is 62.7 per cent and Malaysia has 67.6 per cent.

While China is a major exporter of wood products, ranking first globally in wood-based panel production, Indonesia and Malaysia are top producers of tropical timbers.

Globally, forests cover 30 per cent of the total land area, according to the latest report from Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005, led by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

However, the world is still losing an area of forest equivalent to the total area of Bhutan, Fiji and Brunei Darussalam combined each year — or 200 km sq per day, as per the report.

Overall, Asia and the Pacific have lost around 10 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2005 or 1.1 per cent over 15 years, as per the latest data available. –RH

China's low percentage of forest rate is partly due to the land in Western China is mostly barren.
Many provinces on the plateau/desert have a rate lower than 1%.
But populous provinces with highest GDP actually have comparably high forest rate.
For example, Fujian Province (66+%, 40 million people)
Zhejiang Province （60％， 55 million people)
Guangdong Province (58%, 100 million people)
Economy can indeed live with forests!

 

[Homo Sapiens]

China's low percentage of forest rate is partly due to the land in Western China is mostly barren.
Many provinces on the plateau/desert have a rate lower than 1%.
But populous provinces with highest GDP actually have comparably high forest rate.
For example, Fujian Province (66+%, 40 million people)
Zhejiang Province （60％， 55 million people)
Guangdong Province (58%, 100 million people)
Economy can indeed live with forests!

True,Eastern third of China which contain fertile agricultural land is also rich in woodland.Western two-third which is mostly deserts,mountain,tibetan platue diluded the percentage area of China.Still China has three times more forest area than India.

 

[Śakra]

I was under the impression the whole of bangla desh was jungle.