Welcome to NIshorgo Network

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Nishorgo Network is the affiliated network of co-managed forests and wetlands protected area sites. The name "Nishorgo" implies a poetic and all-encompassing image of nature. Nishorgo Network supports the development of the natural resources sector and the conservation of biological diversity. The network is working to develop a protected area strategy that applies to all ecologically and economically significant areas, including freshwater and forest ecosystems. It also focuses on building technical capacity for protected areas co-management. Nishorgo Network expands the geographic area under co-management to ensure the long-term success of conservation initiatives and extends socio-economic benefits to forest and wetland dependent population.read more
 

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Government of Bangladesh Adopts Co-Management for the Sundarbans: The Ministry of Environment & Forests formally approved the Sundarbans Integrated Resources Management Plans (IRMP), embracing a co-management approach to conservation of this 600,000 hectare World Heritage Site, home to the critically endangered Royal Bengal tiger, and nearly half of Bangladesh’s total forest estate. The IRMP, developed in collaboration between USAID’s IPAC project, the USFS and the GoB Forest Department, establishes co-management between Forest Department staff and local communities living in more than 200 villages and 4 co-management councils (CMCs) in the Sundarbans Landscape Zone. The IRMP also integrates forest and wetland management,read more