City Desk :
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin on Thursday said that Bangladesh National Herbarium (BNH) under the ministry is conducting survey of plant-species activities with the aim of preserving the country’s forests and biodiversity.
“The results obtained from the plant-survey conducted through the current project will play an important role in the country’s botanical education and research, sustainable management and use of plant diversity, identification of endangered plant-species and their protection and formulation of national biodiversity conservation strategies and action plans and in achieving SDG goals,” he said.
The minister was speaking virtually at a workshop of the plant species survey project of Barishal and Sylhet division held at Bangladesh National Herbarium in the city’s Mirpur area as the chief guest from his official residence, reports BSS.
Besides, all these information will be useful for the convention on Biological Diversity, convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora and Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, he added.
Secretary of the ministry Dr Farhina Ahmed presided over the workshop.
Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Md Mizanul Haque Chowdhury, Director of National Herbarium Sanjay Kumar Bhowmik, Chief Conservator of Forests (CCF) of Forest Department Md Amir Hosain Chowdhury, Survey of Vascular Flora of Barishal and Sylhet Divisions (SVFBS) Project Director Dr Sardar Nasir Uddin attended it, among others.
