City Desk :
The Environmental Club (EnCBUP) conducted by the Department of Environmental Science under Faculty of Science and Technology of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) arranged a webinar titled’Ecosystem Restoration as Environmental Conservation Strategy: Bangladesh Perspective’on 06June2021.
Honorable Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate ChangeHabibun Nahar M.P. joined the webinar as the chief guest while BUP VC Major General Md Moshfequr Rahman, SGP, SUP, ndc, psc joined as the special guest. BUP Pro-VC Professor M Abul KashemMozumder, Ph.D joined the webinar as the guest of honor andProfessor Dr. Ainun Nishat, Professor Emeritus, BRAC University presented the keynote paper. Moreover, Mr. Ishtiaq Uddin Ahmed, Forest and nature expert; Former Country Representative, IUCN Bangladesh; Ex – CCF, Bangladesh Forest Department, Mr. Muqeed Majumdar Babu, Chairman, Prokriti O Jibon Foundation and Malik Fida A Khan, Executive Director (in Charge, Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services, CEGIS) and Member National River Conservation Commission also spoke on the webinar. Brigadier General Golam Faruque, psc, Dean, FST delivered the closing speech and thanks all the participants .
The speakers said in the webinar that from forests to wetlands to coasts, we all depend on healthy ecosystems for our survival. In spite of the inevitable necessity of ecosystem services over 4.7 million hectares of forests are lost every yea
