The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is interested to work with the Bangladesh government to manage forests and check wildlife smuggling in the next five years.
“The USAID wants to work closely with Bangladesh in the next five years for forest management and preventing wildlife smuggling and its monitoring,” USAID Bangladesh Mission Director Derrick S Brown said at a meeting held on Thursday with Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin at the Secretariat here.
To this end, he said, the US Forest Services under its Department of Agriculture and the USAID are working to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bangladesh Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
During the meeting, they discussed various issues, including forest management, afforestation, preventing wildlife smuggling, environmental pollution and establishment of environmental database.
Shahab Uddin said the government is working sincerely to check environmental pollution and deal with adverse impacts of climate change.
He sought assistance from the USAID to strengthen the activities of forest management, afforestation and pollution control in the country.
Deputy Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Habibun Nahar and Secretary of the ministry Ziaul Hasan were, among others, present at the meeting.
