To help overseas Bangladeshi workers, Bangladesh has launched a state-run Expatriate Welfare Bank to fund those workers who are going overseas and to handle their remittances which is a major source of foreign exchange.

From Bangladesh, about seven million people are employed abroad, most of them in the Middle East, and they send home about $10bn a year, as per the Finance Ministry officials. Remittances are the second biggest source of foreign earnings for Bangladesh after garment exports, which are worth about $16bn a year.

“Workers can borrow funds from the bank at lower interest rates to meet expenses for going abroad,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said while launching the bank.

“The bank will also help expatriate workers to send money to their families in Bangladesh at lower handling charges,” she said.

A senior official of the Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment said it was hoped the bank would boost remittances.

Expatriate Welfare Bank, with an initial paid up capital of 5 billion taka ($69m), will offer loans to workers at 9% interest which is quite lower than that offered by commercial banks. “Borrowers will have to offer a collateral, but for those who cannot, there will be a supervisory loan,” the ministry official reported. Managed and private banks in Bangladesh charge more than 13% interest on general loans. So it look likes overseas workers of Bangladesh will be benefitted as well as the country.

World Bank is providing full support to Bangladesh and Nepal to protect their wildlife. Bangladesh and Nepal are getting helped by the WB for the first phase of a program on strengthening Regional Cooperation for Wildlife Protection in Asia.

The Washington-based bank has approved an amount of 36-million U.S. dollars for Bangladesh and a 3-million U.S. dollar for Nepal for their first phase of the Adaptable Program Loan, as determined in a bank statement released on the subject.

It said the project will assist the governments to enhance shared capacity, institutions, knowledge and incentives in tackling illegal wildlife trade and other selected regional conservation threats to habitats in border areas, while promoting ecotourism.

South Asia is home to 13-15 percent of the world’s biodiversity and hosts some of the most endangered species on Earth, it said adding habitats across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal are home to over 65 percent of the 3,000 or so remaining wild tigers.

According to the World Bank, pressures such as deforestation, habitat loss, pollution, and poaching of wild animals have put the environmental and ecological balance under severe threat.

The project will tackle conservation threats to habitats in border areas and clamp down on the illegal wildlife trade of species such as the tiger, snow leopard, rhinoceros and elephant in increasingly fragmented habitats, it said.

As per the the World Bank’s statement, Bangladesh Wildlife is holding the largest remaining population of tigers in the Sundarbans & it is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. Also the environmental and ecological balance of the country is under severe threat. Right now, studies about Bangladesh Wildlife show that 4-5% of faunal species and about 10% of floral diversity have become extinct in the last century.

For environmental protection Women’s Sari Squad, a small group of local women in southern Bangladesh has come forward as the guardians of the Chunati Wildlife Reserve. Wives, mothers and villagers go every day in their green saris to patrol the forest with the government rangers to seek out anyone who try to spoil the insubstantial eco-system of the reserve.

Dilwara, a member of the Women’s Sari Squad patrolsaid that the when the group moves through the forest in their green sari, the illicit loggers are intimidated and stay away from their sight.

The Chunati Wildlife Reserve was once a victim of excessive logging and farming but now it is beginning to thrive, as the green regularly encounters wild birds, monkeys, foxes and even elephants.

The Women’s Sari Squad patrols are just one aspect of a broader plan to nurse Chunati Wildlife Reserve back to its awesome natural beauty. The program to protect wildlife sanctuary in Bangladesh is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and Germany’s development agency GTZ. It supports government-community partnerships to work on the lines of participatory development so both parties can be benefitted from conserving the wildlife sanctuary in Bangladesh. The ongoing project has rejuvenated this 25-year-old wildlife sanctuary that serves as a passageway for Asian elephants migrating between Bangladesh and Myanmar.

I want to share the latest health care tip added in my health care tips list.  Some people think daytime nap increases weight and obesity but that’s not true daytime sleep for long hours especially after lunch increases body weight. A daytime nap for few minutes is quick health care tip that is good for your heart.

As per a new research, taking an hour’s sleep during the day could give you a healthy heart. In a study by Ryan Brindle and Sarah Conklin, from Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) it is cleared that there is a good effect of a daytime nap on cardiovascular recovery following a stress test and found that those participants who slept for at least 45 minutes during the day had lower average blood pressure after psychological stress than those who did not sleep.

Long work schedules, shift work, increased anxiety and greater uses of the Internet and television late at night-all characteristics of our modern society-have had an impact on nocturnal sleep.

For the study, the researchers split 85 healthy university students into two groups: One group was allotted a 60-minute interval during the day when they had the opportunity to sleep; the other group did not sleep during the day.

The researchers also asked the students to complete questionnaires assessing sleep quality and complete a cardiovascular reactivity task, involving a complex mental subtracting exercise.

So my health care tip of the day is to quickly take a daytime nap whenever possible especially for heart patients or for individuals with known cardiovascular disease risk and those with suboptimal sleep quality. Their research had made me to add this health care tip into my favorites since I love to sleep.

It’s not necessary to go to doctor & clinic s only for your personal daily health care. You should at least take care of your body & health on daily basis to ensure long healthy life. Daily health care is not a big deal to do. Don’t think that I am telling you give a half day doing health care stuffs leaving your daily work.

I am just suggesting to do daily health care along with your daily work. Sound tedious; let me share with you that how easy it is to take daily health care. Here are some tips to take daily health care of you &your family.

1. Relish your food. Time is a luxury many people don’t have today. As a result, you have people rushing about their dinners, eating in front of the television, grabbing a few pieces of toast for breakfast and the like. This just won’t do. By taking some time and chewing your food properly, you will be able to make sure that your digestion works efficiently.

2. Walk more often. Whenever you walk, you are actually exercising. When you have enough time, you might want to walk instead of ride. Why, with the ever-increasing costs of gasoline today, this activity might help you save some cash as well as give you the exercise you need. It is said that an average of 10,000 steps daily should help keep you fit.

3. Relax. Stress plays a key role in the degeneration of cells. If you want to keep looking younger, you should smile more. Learn to enjoy life. When you learn how to manage your life better and avoid stress, you will find that you have better health. Now that’s something everyone wants.

4. No such thing as a six-second exercise. A lot of people are spending hundreds of dollars on machines that claim to exercise a person without doing any work. However, you should realize that there’s more to exercise than muscle training. Using a machine to tone your abs won’t work if you keep accumulating fat. You need to have cardiovascular training in order to truly use energy efficiently. You need to perform some sort of vigorous exercise which leaves your heart pounding and you nearly out of breath for more than 15 minutes at a time.

5. Be informed. Most people suffer from malnutrition simply because they turn to all the wrong solutions for their health problems. Before following a diet regime or buying a new gadget, you should really read up more on what is good for you. This includes food substitutions and get-thin-quick schemes.

6. Eat fresh and organic. Whether it comes to meat or veggies, you need to stop going for what’s quick and start eating what’s right. Fresh produce not only produces healthier meals, it also tastes the best. Don’t you think that eating food full of chemicals with names you can’t even pronounce can be just a wee bit dodgy?

7. Be active. Life is too short to waste sitting in front of the television. Be more active. Engage in some sort of activity where you actually have to move. Whether you are taking up rock climbing, martial arts, dancing or even if you just go out and buy an eye toy or a Wii, you should at least try and utilize all those muscles. If you are a retiree, you should try and take up tai-chi or some other activity which requires you to move all your muscles.

8. Set a goal. Whether you are attempting to lose, maintain or gain weight (yes, sometimes, it’s better to gain weight than lose weight., you need to set a goal for yourself. Goal-setting will enable you to keep your motivation up, as it will show you what sort of progress you are actually making. Motivation is very important in keeping fit. Are you familiar with the phrase “let yourself go”? Well, that’s what really happens. When you let go of your motivation, you let go of your willingness to be fit.

9. Cut back on vices. Did you know that 30 minutes after you quit smoking, your heart rate improves, your blood pleasure lowers and your breathing becomes easier? Smoking will kill you. If you want to improve your health just quit smoking. A glass or two of wine after a meal will definitely help you improve your heart rate. More than that, however, will just be equal to consuming empty calories.

10. Get help. You need some sort of support system in order to help you achieve your goal and keep on track. You might want to turn to a personal trainer, but that would require you to spend some cash. You should, instead, try to go to a friend or your family. Doing this will enable you to have a more personal contact with your support system and help you keep motivated.

11. Start today. It’s all well and good to plan, but if you want to get healthy you had better begin immediately. Start being active today. Take action right now. Whether you drop that potato chip or go out running it does not matter; just do it right now. Procrastination only begets more procrastination and you never know when it might be too late.

These daily health care tips are quite beneficial I have tried it myself. They will help you make sure that you take a good daily health care of yourself & your family members & lead a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle make you live a happy life.

If you have ever been to Bangladesh then would have had all foggy mornings in Bangladesh.  Climate in Bangladesh is a tropical monsoon-type climate. Climate in Bangladesh is with a hot and rainy summer always. Bangladesh Climate & ecology experience a pronounced dry season in the cooler months.

You might know that as per climate in Bangladesh January is the coolest month of the year, with temperatures averaging near 26 deg C (78 d F). Also Bangladesh climate has April the warmest month, with temperatures ranging between 33 deg and 36 deg C (91 deg F and 96 deg F).

The Bangladesh climate is one of the wettest in the world. Most places in Bangladesh receive more than 1,525 mm (60 in) of rain a year, and areas near the hills receive 5,080 mm (200 in). Most rain falls during the monsoon (June-September) and little during the dry season (November-February).

Cyclones in the climate of Bangladesh are just inseparable.

The coastal districts of Bangladesh, particularly those flanking the Meghna estuary are susceptible to serious damage from cyclones, which cause major losses of life and property. In the early summer (April and May) and late in the monsoon season (September to November) storms of very high intensity often occur. They may create winds with speed of 100-150 miles per hour piling up the waters of Bay of Bengal to crests as high as 20 feet that crash with tremendous force onto the coastal areas and offshore islands. Since the early 18th century, when records were first kept, more than one million people have been killed in such storms –815,000 of them in three storms occurring in 1737, 1876 and 1970. Severe storms also occurred in May 1985 and April 1991. Lesser hazards in the region are hailstorms, particularly in March and April, and tornadoes.

Floods

Bangladesh is one of the most flood-prone countries in the world. Essentially, it’s the flood plain where two huge rivers–the Ganges and the Brahmaputra–carry spring snowmelt from the towering Himalayan Mountains to the sea. When rivers flood, then Bangladesh also floods. Nobody can forget Bangladesh Floods in the year 1998.

Impact of Sea-level rise

Bangladesh is mostly shaped of the Gangetic delta. There is a serious impact of Sea-level rise. Bangladesh is thus impacted severely if sea-levels rise as a result of the greenhouse effect. You can have more info about climate in Bangladesh & climatic impact on Bangladesh on nationalized sites & channels.

A project research on Bangladesh Ecology, Bangladesh Behavior and Conservation of Some Bangladesh Wildlife is towards an end now. This research in the area of wildlife, ecology, behavior and conservation was done under the bilateral collaboration between the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University Of Chittagong (UCHIT) (Chittagong, Bangladesh). It was funded by the Norwegian Cooperation Program for Development Research and Education (NUFU).

As prefixed the duration mentioned for the project was 2007-2011. They were primarily interested to look at the relationship that is there between the biodiversity & the ecology of wildlife and the effects of habitat adaptation and disintegration on conservation of species in Bangladesh. There were 4 PhD Researchers, 4 Mphil and 3 MSc students.

The most important intentions of the project were:

- To build human resource and institutional capacity in the areas of natural science, and

- To increase the ability to demonstrate a critical awareness and reflection on research-based information as a basis for problem solving and practice in professional contexts; to interpret and report research findings in areas of natural science; to formulate research questions and problems, design and carry out small scale research projects and present findings in academic conferences.

The chief doings of the project were as follows:

- To develop realistic international standard course curricula, research laboratory, organizing training and supervising for PhD and Masters study in the areas of natural science;

- To produce research based dissertation and publications and arrange seminars, symposiums and workshops or conferences to disseminate research-based information;

- To establish the linkage or networking with relevant disciplines or departments or research institutions at home and abroad.

Funding of the whole Ecology, Behavior and Conservation of Some Bangladesh Wildlife project was done by:

- Norwegian Cooperation Programme for Development Research and Education (NUFU)

- Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund (Lånekassen).

Such researches & studies create awareness not only towards some endangered Bangladesh Wildlife species which need to be conversed but also the care nature life & ecology need from human life.

Bangladesh wildlife is vey interestingly full of Bangladeshi flora & fauna & their natural habitats. Though several areas are protected under law, a large portion of Bangladeshi wildlife is threatened by the growth of human population which lead to subsequent clearing of numerous natural habitats.

Bangladesh supports a surprising wildlife, including Bengal tigers and other endangered species. Forests, jungle, mangrove, waterways, hills and plains of Bangladesh have preserved many endangered species in them.

Set between the Indian plains and the hills of Myanmar, Bangladesh has more to offer in matters of conservation than one might expect. Wet and flat it may be but there are hills in the Sylhet and Chittagong districts, rising to over 1200 metres, and a large section of the Ganges delta sprawling across the southern coastline.

Different habitats encourage a variety of fauna and flora and with the establishment of parks and reserves; conservation efforts are well under way.

Bangladesh National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries

Bangladesh boasts eight national parks and seven wildlife sanctuaries, many with recreation facilities, trails and guides, plus five conservation areas and one game reserve, Teknaf, overlooking the Bay of Bengal and known for medicinal plants.

Closest to Dhaka, the Bhawal National Park is home to peacocks, python, catfish, deer and others and protects a coppice sal forest. Himchari near Cox Bazar has grasslands and rainforest sheltering gibbons, leopards and sloth bears.In the Bay of Bengal, Nijhum Dweep adds its own contribution with some 5000 deer, clawless otters, fishing cats, turtles and dolphins.

Top of the wildlife sanctuaries is the UNESCO listed Sundarban, divided into east, west and south, across the Ganges delta spreading into India. Mudflats, islands, waterways, mangrove and freshwater swamps support crocodiles, flying fox, pangolin, chital, snakes, Ridley turtles and tigers.

Bangladesh Bengal Tigers and Endangered Species

Bangladesh has adopted the Royal Bengal tiger as its national emblem, setting up the Sundarban tiger project in 2005 to collect data, study habitat and raise conservation awareness through education. A male Bengal tiger weighs over 200 kg and hunts mostly at dusk, feeding on medium to large preys. In 2010, the Bengal tiger population was estimated below 2500 across the Indian subcontinent with over 200 in Bangladesh, mostly in the Sundarban but a few in the eastern hills.

Among other endangered species found in Bangladesh are Indian elephants, black bears and hoolock gibbons, the second largest of the species, a number of snakes, turtles and crocodiles. The blind freshwater dolphin is seen in groups of just two or three and often considered on the critical list. Rare birds include the Baer’s pochard and Palla’s fishing eagle.

Bangladesh wildlife, national parks & sanctuaries are trying their best to save these species. If they don’t then, such a large loss will usually effect the environment to a greater or lesser degree and result in environmental imbalances.

Bill Stilwell loves nature. He loves it in the scientific sense of so many creatures live in a habitat. He loves the art of landscape full of color, texture, light and shadow. And he loves in a romantic sense of the life instinct great wild places. All this was evident during Stilwell’s presentation of Manitoba Wild at Red River North Regional Library in Selkirk last week.

“I tried to design this book as a place where you can go for a ride, and en route you will need something past that is really a crossroads,” said Stilwell. “And when you reach this point is to do this combination and experience to do so. And when you get there, you have not finished, he said. “So you have to spend time hiking or walking or cycling.”

More than a dozen people gathered at the library Feb. 2 to hear Stilwell talk about his third book of provincial scenic gems. Both Manitoba Naturally and Scenic Secrets of Manitoba became bestsellers; Outdoor Writers of Canada named Manitoba Naturally the best outdoor book in Canada.

Stilwell, who lived in the Tri-S and Interlake areas for a number of years, included 10 regions across the province in Manitoba Wild including the Interlake.

During the presentation, Stilwell talked about the research process for Manitoba Wild. The Neepawa resident personally made at least three trips to every site included in the book. He also read excerpts from Manitoba Wild during his presentation, and showed a number of slides; all of various photographs included in the book.

Some of the notable Interlake features were Netley Marsh, Grindstone Point and Lundar Beach.
“I just love Canada geese, and I love working in the Interlake because I’m always surrounded by them,” Stilwell said.
He mentioned that most of Manitoba Wild was written on-site at the various places he visited. Notebook in hand, he would jot down impressions as he waited for the right photo opportunities.

Some people in attendance last week had already been to several of the various scenic spots Stilwell included from around Manitoba. Others plan to visit as many more as they can.

Joyce Latimer, of East Selkirk, said she decided to attend the presentation because she likes wildlife, especially owls and other birds, and hopes to visit some nearby places from the book. She recognized a few areas to which she had already been.
Jeff and Ruth Riesen live in the RM of St. Andrews near Oak Hammock Marsh, and have been fans of Stilwell’s work for years; systematically visiting the places featured in his books.

“I like nature and we’ve been following his books for a long time now,” said Jeff Riesen.

“These places are laughing all the time and you do not think of anything to see,” says Riesen. “She opens her eyes.” Stilwell and only the will. “I’m trying to get you off the beaten track a bit ‘you without getting caught,” he said.

Develop technology and light pollution is considered one of the reasons why fireflies disappearing into the swamps, fields and forests around the world. To investigate this accident, the team leader Chung Hwa School East in Kampung Kuala Belait Mentire to study the causes of the disappearance of their princess Rashida Awards for young people to scientific or PRYNSA 13 of the project entitled “Lampyridae:. Conservation and education in Brunei ”

Fireflies considered charismatic insects from National Geographic. Their location choices are hot, humid and stagnant water near the ponds, smoke and rivers or shallow depressions that retain water longer than the surrounding land, but when our rivers look more development and noise pollution, natural habitat of fireflies destroyed. By choosing the field, brought together members of the team information through the Internet and chose Kampung Mentire their destination. The study focused on identifying
the predators of the fireflies to understand and conclude to a reason why the fireflies population are decreasing.
Through this study, students are convinced they will be able to prevent the extinction of the fireflies and also raise awareness and public understanding by emphasizing the importance of observation and preservation of fireflies. Beyond Brunei will also benefit from this study to promote its eco-tourism, creating more jobs and bring more revenue for the country.