The forest of Bangladesh is decreasing at alarming rates. It is feared that the natural disasters of the catastrophic catastrophe In the last decade, forest and forest land have reduced by two-thirds. The country's natural environment is now facing a serious threat. But it is essential to have one-fourth of the total forest area of any country in order to maintain the balance of the environment. But the forest area in Bangladesh is only 8 to 9 percent. Continuous forest destruction means the country's forest cover is declining further. And the adverse effects of the country's natural environment and diversity.
According to the sources, in the 1960s, the amount of forest land in Bangladesh was 24 percent. After independence, it came down to 19 percent. In the 80's and 90's it reduced further. At that time the forest area was only 16 parts in the country. However, according to the forest department, the forest area of Bangladesh is around 18 percent of the country's total land. The government is under the control of the country's 1.55 million hectares of land These include forest forests, plain forests, Sundarbans, forests made on the coast and forests made in tea and tea garden. However, the total forest cover of the country has increased from 16 to 17 percent, with the help of the government's protection forest, individual plantation plants, social forestry and coastal greenery. The government wants to increase the forest land to 20 percent by 2020. Although the government has claimed to have 16 to 17 percent of all forest land in the country, but only 8 to 9 percent of the reserve forests are there. However, various private development organizations do not agree with the government's claim about forest land. According to them, the country now has forest land only 6 percent. According to the donor organization World Bank, the country's forest area is 7.7 percent. And as a private one, we now have 10 10 percent or less forest land in Bangladesh. Although the total forest cover in the country is 2.5 million hectares, in fact it is much lower. According to many foreign organizations, the country's per capita forest area currently has a population of 0.012 hectares. 4 decades ago it was 035 hectares. By the end of the 80's, the total forest cover in the country was 3.3 percent.
The sources said, since the independence of the country, the forest land of this country has been decreasing continuously. But the hope is that people are much more aware about the tree. People plant trees manually. In this situation, the government should also use the hillocks to increase the country's forest land, in addition to the common people. For this reason, the research has to be expanded. Besides, it is necessary to take action as well as to cultivate environment-friendly and climate influencing trees that can be tackled by research. In order to increase the human habitat, as well as providing new farmland construction and construction of buildings, huge forest land is destroyed. Besides, the forest is further destroyed mainly due to the increase in crop production, making furniture, expansion of the population, unplanned urbanization, and industrial development. Due to the unplanned brickfields and roads being created across the country, the trees and forest areas are also declining. Meanwhile, the average forest of Madhupur, Sundarbans and the greater Chittagong Hill Forests have erupted. As a result, the fear of natural disasters across the country has been intensified. There is a complaint that the deforestation of the forest department is involved in the destruction of the country's forest land due to its involvement with forest destroyer chakra. Tree and wood are used as fuel for making bricks freely in the country's brick fields. Although it is forbidden to use trees or wood as fuel in a brick field. But the government can not control it anyhow. According to a statistic, approximately 33 percent of the wood is used as fuel in brick kilns. There are about 8,000 brick fields in the country. Most of them are making bricks in the traditional method. The tree or wood is used as a fuel. The country's forestland is fast destroyed.
Regarding the loss of forests in the environment, environmentalists said the imbalance of the environment due to the destruction of forests of the country is being shown. Heavy rainfall or drought is now every year. Floods are going on all over the country for some years. Again, in some year, the land was split in drought. Arbitrary forest degradation caused carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent in the world. Scientists, which are identified as one of the main reasons for climate change. Although trees are used to counter adverse effects of climate change, every day, on average, about 1,30,000 environmental-friendly flowers and fruit trees are being cut in this country. In contrast, only 30,000 trees are planted. Among these, foreign trees which are harmful for the environment are more likely to be planted. As a result, the natural environment of the country is being destroyed as soon as the forest is destroyed.
Environmentalists also said that tobacco cultivation is directly responsible for the destruction of forest land. 30 percent of the amount of woodland is destroyed every year due to the production and processing of tobacco products. It takes 60 to 72 hours to burn every bottle of tobacco through oven. During the oven, continuous fire started burning. Then there is continuous timber as fuel in the oven. To burn the tobacco every load requires 30 to 35 pieces of worm. The tobacco leaves of one acre are burnt in four loads. For this, there is a requirement of two and a half mounds of firewood per season. In order to provide this fodder, about 1 thousand medium trees have to be cut. If there are 50 to 80 tobacco burning ovens in an area, then about 12,000 to 20,000 trees are cut every season. Besides, forest land has also been destroyed for agricultural extension.
According to sources, about 31 percent of the earth's forests have forests. Of these, there are 5 countries in Russia, China, Canada, America and Brazil, 53 percent of the forests in the world. About 160 million people in the world are directly dependent on the forest for livelihood. And 30 million people live in the forest. 80 percent of the developing countries collect drugs from forests. Considering this, the UN declared the year 2011 as 'International Forest Year'. In the last 10 years, a UN report has said that 17 million hectares of forest has been extinct in the whole world. In addition, the report said that forests are destroyed by 8 hectares per day in the world.
Meanwhile, the ruling government has taken several initiatives to protect and enhance the forest cover of the country. For this, the government has taken up a project entitled 'Forrest Information Generation and Networking System', spending more than eight crore rupees. If the project is implemented, it will be possible to monitor the forest cover of the country through satellite. Even in the ministry, forest observation will be possible. Besides, the government has taken an initiative to implement the project titled "Reducing of Carbon" and measuring the carbon stock of the Sundarbans as well as to take money under the UNFCCC. The government wants to increase the forest area by 20 percent to 20 percent by 2020. To this end, the government has set up alternative timber production projects of timber. Currently, there are 16 to 17 percent forest areas in Bangladesh. The reserve forest area is 8 to 9 percent.
On the other hand, the government has taken initiative to increase the country's forest land through social forestry. In this program poor people of the country engaged in forestry also enjoy financial benefits. As a result, continuous expansion of social forestry activities. In rural areas, the participation of the villagers in partnership with the social forestry program has been increased from 35% to 75% in the social forestry. In the past, the distribution of mature trees planted by social forestry has been distributed among the 88 thousand beneficiaries, with a dividend of approximately 150 crores. There is also a 33-kilogram money tree farming fund. Besides, the government has earned revenue of Tk 153 crore from forest land. The success of social forestry has made the country more interested in planting trees. As a result, about 5 lakh beneficiaries participated in social forestry. Moreover, the forest department raised Tk 10 crore last year. Which is much more than the other year. Earlier, the highest record of sowing was only 4 crore. The forest department has undertaken the program to lift 13 million saplings this year.
Desirable forest and environmental minister of the environment said. Hasan Mahmud told reporters that due to the increasing population, the country's forest cover was under pressure. This has made it difficult to protect forestland. The government has given more attention to the protection of forest land and new forestry. Meanwhile, the government has taken several initiatives to increase the forest area of the country. The government has already been severely punished by the 1927 forest law amendment. Earlier, the government would not have any permission to cut its own trees. But now there is a provision that requires permission.