Fasiakhali Wildlife Sanctuary
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Fasiakhali Wildlife Sanctuary ( bn, ফাসিয়াখালী বন্যপ্রানী সংরক্ষণ অভয়ারন্য) is a wildlife sanctuary in southern Chakaria Upazilla of Bangladesh. located on an island in Bay of Bengal in the south of the country. The area of the sanctuary is , and is located on eastern and northern hills of Bangladesh.


Climate

The rainfall is very high during the monsoon season,


History

Two forest villages of 112 inhabitants were set up in 1950. Later on a large population of Rohingya have settled inside the sanctuary.


Management

The park is managed by one range officer and one forest beat guard. It is administered by the Coastal Forest Division at Bhola. It was declared as wildlife sanctuary on 2007 under the Bangladesh wildlife (Preservation) Amendment Act of 1947. No forestry activities is carried out in the mangrove forest except conservation activities. There are 16 villages inside the sanctuary with 33,00 population.


Biodiversity

The sanctuary has a tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen type of forest; the sanctuary is covered with dense shrubby vegetation with patches of dense forest and bamboos.


Flora

The vegetation is composed of forest of Gurjan ( Dipterocarpus turbinatus) and Dhakijam Syzygium species. There are plantations of teak (''Tectona grandis''), ''Eucalyptus'' species and ''Acacia'' species.


Fauna

The Indian elephant (''Elephus maximus'') is the major threatened species found in the sanctuary. The elephants are mainly restricted to the Dulahazara, Ringvong and Fasiakhal reserved forest blocks. The savannas and the perennial waterbodies inside the sanctuary support the population of elephants. The other threatened species are
Clouded leopard The clouded leopard (''Neofelis nebulosa''), also called the mainland clouded leopard, is a wild cat inhabiting dense forests from the foothills of the Himalayas through mainland Southeast Asia into South China. In the early 19th century, a cl ...
(''Neofelis nebulosa'') and Hog badger (''Arctonyx collaris'') and along with Spotted deer (''Axis axis'') and Wild boar (''Sus scrofa'')


Threats

The threats are encroachment for cultivation land, removal of forest produce and tree cutting by the local people . The long railway line proposed Chittagong- Cox's Bazar railway project will be passing through the buffer zone of the sanctuary .


See also

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List of protected areas of Bangladesh This is a list of protected areas of Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 163 million people in an area of either or , making it one of the most de ...


References

{{authority control Forests of Bangladesh Wildlife sanctuaries of Bangladesh