Commonwealth NGOs
related to forestry

bullet1 BANGLADESH

bullet2 Social Organization to Village Development Bangladesh

HQ address: Faruque’s House, Captain Samsul Islam Road Asian H

250/A, (3rd floor), North Shulak Bohar

Chittagong

Bangladesh

Email:  sova_ctg@yahoo.com

Website:

Type:  NGO   

Scope:  local   

Interest in Forestry:  central

Description

SOVA is working in bio-diversity conservation besides its other working area undertaking various interventions like, community forestry, nursery development, and environmental education and motivation etc ensuring involvement of forest community people. We are one of the NGOs in Chittagong in Bangladesh (South Asia). Our Working Area is situated in Indo-Burma Hotspot. But now Forest situation of Chittagong is at alarming. Most of the forest has been destroyed due to some specific reasons. We would like to address the reasons and to solve the problems. We would like to take initiative to assist to save and protect Bio-diversity and ecological balance of Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. We would like to undertake community based forestry program aiming to assist to save ecological balance and biodiversity of CHT as per felt need of our community people ensuring their direct participation and ownership toward enhance livelihood of forest community.