Identifying landscape factors affecting tiger decline in the Bangladesh Sundarbans

Global Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Hossain, Abu Naser Mohsin ^a,b   Lynam, Antony J ^c   Ngoprasert, Dusit ^a   Barlow, Adam ^d   Barlow, Christina Greenwood ^d   Savini, Tommaso ^a  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b Bangladesh Forest Department   (Bangladesh)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d Surfside   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Joint patrolling; Population declines; Protected area effectiveness; Transboundary protection; Wildlife poaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042907984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23519894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00382     Document Type: Article

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