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Starting February 15, an exercise to set up a nylon net fencing will start in two pockets of the Bangladesh Sundarban prone to human-tiger conflict, similar to the nets put up by foresters on this side of the border
Large swaths of the Sundarbans are drying up, allowing people and their cattle to access parts of the mangrove forest they would not have been able to.
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Masked Finfoot, Sundarban. Photo: Ihtisham kabir
Rare, endangered and beautiful, the Masked Finfoot shines among the birds of Bangladesh. In the entire world, it is only the Bangladesh Sundarban where it can be found in good numbers. This secretive and mysterious bird sometimes behaves like a duck and sometimes like a bird. The mangrove forest provides grounds for it to live, eat and breed.
About ten years ago, it was estimated that perhaps one thousand Masked Finfoots survive in the wild, the vast majority of them in our Sundarban. However, in a recent paper published in the ornithological journal