ECO RESORT

Site : Teknaf , Bangladesh

SITE TERRAIN :

Source : Google map

ABOUT THE SITE :

Naf Tourism Park (Jaliardwip)

Naf Tourism Park will be the first island based tourism park in Bangladesh encompassing an area of 271 acres.

Location:

Naf Tourism Park is located on an egg-shaped island raised in the middle of the Naf River under Teknaf Upazilla of
Cox’s Bazar. It has scenic Beauty with a hill view on both Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Connectivity:

• Located beside the Teknaf-Cox’s Bazar road.

• Only 90 km away from Cox’s Bazar Airport
• Teknaf Land Port only 0.4 km from the tourism park
• A cable car connection will be constructed from Ne-Taung Hill to Naf Tourism Park (8.5km).

Source :https://www.beza.gov.bd/economic-zones-site/government-owned-sites/naf-tourism-park-jaliardwip/
MANGROVE FORESTS :

Mangrove forests like this may be one of the world’s most underappreciated landscapes. They provide important
habitat for a wide variety of terrestrial, estuarine and marine species — from fish to birds and manatees — and
supply nutrients and sediments for seagrass-bed and coral-reef habitats.

And mangrove forests also help mitigate climate change, pulling massive amounts of greenhouse gases from the
atmosphere and storing them in their soils — up to four times as much carbon as other tropical forests. A 2018 study
calculated that the world’s mangrove forests suck up more than 6 billion tons of carbon a year.

Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and India, where the biggest mangrove forest on Earth — covering an area of
more than 3,860 square miles — houses at least 505 species of wildlife, including 355 species of birds, 49 mammals
and 291 fish. It provides critical habitat for Bengal tigers.

The Sundarbans are particularly important for protection from cyclones, which because of deforestation in recent
decades have increased in number and intensity in the past few years. Fifteen percent of tropical cyclones form in
this region. The country’s annual monsoon season has also worsened, including catastrophic floods this summer.
In addition, Bangladesh already has seen significant loss of mangrove forests to shrimp farming

Source : https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/
Name Charcteristics Photo Resistance against climate protection
Sundari medium-sized evergreen tree growing to a *Protects soil from erosion
(Heritiera fomes) height of 15 to 25 m (49 to 82 ft). The roots *Protects coastline from tropical cyclones
are shallow and spread up
pneuometaphores

Gewa This small tree species may grow up to 15 *Most salt-tolerant species occur near the
(Excoecaria agallocha) m high ocean.

Goran grows as a shrub or small tree up to 15 *can thrive in the salt-stressed mangrove soil,
(Ceriops decandra) meters (50 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of and also trap and reduce arsenic uptake by
up to 30 cm plants, such as paddy, in these conditions.

Keora can attain a height of about 20m and a *utilized as a plantation species to create a
(Sonneratia apetala) girth of about 2.5m, one of the tallest shelter belt along the coastal areas and
offshore islands of Bangladesh

Passur (Xylocarpus mekongensis) It is a moderate size deciduous tree *Inhabitants for wildlife and birds.
species attaining a height of 10 to 15 *It protects soil erosion along river and canal
banks.
Source :

1.https://india.mongabay.com/2018/02/bioremediation-boost-sundarbans-mangroves-shelter-arsenic-loving-salt-
tolerant-bacteria/
2.https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Keora
3.https://www.journalbinet.com/publisher-blog/important-mangrove-species-of-the-sundarbans
4.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundarbans
5.https://www.beza.gov.bd/economic-zones-site/government-owned-sites/naf-tourism-park-jaliardwip/
6.https://therevelator.org/mangroves-climate-change/
7.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritiera_fomes
8.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excoecaria_agallocha