Thursday 10 August 2017

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MANGROVE RELATED PERSONS BIOGRAPHY
Detailed description or account of someone's life related with Mangrove conservation, research, administration or any other form of activities. More than a list of basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death), a biography also portrays a subject's experience of these events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of a subject's personality. Please follow this Google Form (Bengali | English) or download the template (Bengali | English) to write a new biography.

MANGROVE RELATED PROJECT
Description with objectives, financing, results and critics of the projects related with Mangrove conservation and restoration. Please follow this Google Form (Bengali | English) or download the template (Bengali | English) to write about a project.
  1. Conservation and Destruction: How to conserve and restore mangrove forests, why how it is degrading and destroying
  2. Culture: Description of mangrove related Folk Festivals, Poetry, Fiction Stories, Traditional games, Legend Stories, Beliefs, Mangrove Deities, Proverbs etc.
  3. Definitions: (a) Category of Mangroves: Description and analysis of different elements of mangrove forests like: Black Mangrove, Grey Mangrove, Major Mangrove, Mangrove Associates, Mangrove Palm, Minor Mangrove, Red Mangrove, True Mangrove, White Mangrove, Yellow Mangrove etc. (b) Ecological Elements: Brackish Water, Canopy, Detritus, Ecology, Ecosystem, Freshwater, Hyper-salinity, Intertidal Zone, Mangrove Forest, Salinity, Saltmarsh, Sanctuary, Sequestration, Swamp, Wetland etc. (c) Species and their parts: Alien Species, Amphibian, Arthropod, Bird, Class (of living organism), Exotic Species, Extinct Species, Family (of living organism), Fauna, Fern, Fish, Flora, Hydrophyte, Invasive Species, Invertebrate, Mammal, Native Species, Palm, Plant, Pneumatophore, Prop Root, Propagule, Pugmark, Reptile, Shrub, Tree, Halophyte etc.
  4. Distribution of Mangroves: (a) List of Countries with Mangrove Forests[1]: World, Africa, Asia, Central America, North America, Oceania, South America; (b) List of Mangrove Forests: World, Africa, Asia, Central America, North America, Oceania, South America etc. (c) List of country-wise Mangrove Forests: Mangrove Forests of Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines etc.
  5. Description of the Mangrove Forests: Like Balikapan, Bhitarkanika Mangrove Forest, Baratang Island Mangroves, Chakoria Sundarbans, Fujian Quanzhou Bay Mangrove Reserve, Fujian Jiulongjiangkou Mangrove Reserve, Fujian Zhangjiangkou Mangrove Reserve, Godavari-Krishna Mangroves, Guangdong Zhanjiang Mangrove Reserve, Guangdong Zhuhai Mangrove Reserve, Guangxi Beilunhekou Mangrove Reserve, Guangxi Maoweihai Mangrove Reserve, Guangxi Shankou Mangrove Reserve, Hainan Qinglangang Mangrove Reserve, Lush Mangrove Forest, Mai Po Mangrove and Wildlife Reserve, Pichavaram Mangrove Forest, Shenzhen Futian Mangrove-Bird Reserve, Sunderbans National Park (SNP), Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Sundarbans Tiger Reserve (STR), The Sundarbans, Zhanjiang National Mangrove Reserve (ZNMR) etc. Zones of Mangrove Forest: Sundarbans Impact Zone (SIZ) etc. 
  6. Flora and Fauna Species: Clear description and characteristics of species found in the Mangrove Forests. Plants, Animals, Birds, Fishes and micro-organisms found in mangrove forests.
  7. Livelihoods and Livelihood Groups: Bawali (wood and Golpata collectors), Chunari (Lime Makers), Fishermen, Jongra Khota (Oyster Collectors), Moual (Honey Collectors), Tourist Guides etc. 
  8. Mangrove Ecology: Buffer Zone, Ecologically Critical Area (ECA), Impact Zone, Alien Species in the Mangrove Forests, Amphibians of Mangrove Forests, Birds of Mangrove Forest and Wetlands, Exotic Species of the Mangrove Forests, Mangroves and Climate Change etc.
  9. Mangrove Related Organizations: Description, projects and history of the organizations related with Mangrove Conservation and restoration, even if it is only one species.  
  10. Tourist Spots: (a) List of Mangrove Tourist Spots: World, Africa, Asia, Central America, North America, Oceania, South America; (b) List of Country-wise Mangrove Tourist Spots: Mangrove Tourist Spots of (Bangladesh, India, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka etc. (c) Description of Mangrove Tourist Spots
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[1] Mangroves are found in 122 countries and regions of the world. The countries and regions are: American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, United States, United States Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Wallis and Futuna Islands and Yemen.