The services Bangladesh gets from the Sundarbans every year can be translated to over Tk5,456 crores in terms of monetary value, a study says. Wildlife biologist AHM Raihan Sarker, environmental economist M Nur Nobi, and Geographic Information Science analyst Emran Hassan carried out the study. Continuous and thoughtless procurement of natural resources threatened to cause irreparable damage to Sundarbans’ ecosystem, the study noted. “Services provided by Sundarbans, in terms of its monetary contribution, were not ascertained precisely,” he told the Dhaka Tribune. “The overall contribution of Sundarbans to the country’s economy was always given short shrift,” Raihan said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 07, 2017 14:37 UTC