1984
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605300019001
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Endangered mammals of Bangladesh

Abstract: Many mammal species have been exterminated in Bangladesh; many more are threatened. The author visited all the forested areas, where 80 per cent of the surviving mammals are to be found, for this survey. His report supplements and enforces the primate survey report of S.P. Gittins and A.W. Akonda in the February 1982 Oryx.

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“…Scales of Indian Pangolin are used in Chinese medicines (CITES 2000). In Bangladesh the Indian Pangolin is regularly captured for its scales and it has now disappeared from many parts due to illegal hunting (Khan 1985;2000). In Pakistan the Indian Pangolin is protected under Islamabad Wildlife (protection, preservation, conservation and management) Ordinance, 1979 and North-west Frontier Province Wildlife (protection, preservation, conservation and management) Act, 1975(Molur 2008.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Scales of Indian Pangolin are used in Chinese medicines (CITES 2000). In Bangladesh the Indian Pangolin is regularly captured for its scales and it has now disappeared from many parts due to illegal hunting (Khan 1985;2000). In Pakistan the Indian Pangolin is protected under Islamabad Wildlife (protection, preservation, conservation and management) Ordinance, 1979 and North-west Frontier Province Wildlife (protection, preservation, conservation and management) Act, 1975(Molur 2008.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Eastward, the range stretches through southern Bhutan, and into the Indian states of Assam, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh. Some sloth bears may still exist in remnant, mixedevergreen forests of the Chittagong and Sylhet regions of eastern Bangladesh, but by the early 1970s they had been extirpated from the sal forests of central Bangladesh (Khan 1982(Khan , 1984R. Khan in litt.…”
Section: General Distributionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…data) and Sri Lanka . The status of sloth bears in Bangladesh is precarious at best, if they even still exist there (Khan 1982(Khan , 1984R. Khan in litt.…”
Section: Populations and Statusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The fulvous fruit bat, Rousettus leschenaulti , is distributed over Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Vietnam, south China, Java and Bali. It prefers to roost in dark places, such as caves or man‐made structures (Khan 1985). The main food of R. leschenaulti is fruit, e.g.…”
Section: Listed Locus Primer Sequences Repeat Motifs Annealing Temmentioning
confidence: 99%