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Lawachara National Park

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Lawachara National Park (লাউয়াছড়া) is a major national park and nature reserve in Bangladesh. [1]

87 relations: Alluvium, Alpinia, Alstonia scholaris, Amphibian, Artocarpus, Assam, Bamboo, Bambusa burmanica, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association, Betel, Bhawal National Park, Biodiversity, Biome, Bridelia retusa, Calamus (palm), Cassia fistula, Chevron Corporation, Climate, Comilla District, Curcuma, Cyclone, Deciduous, Dhaka, Dillenia, Dioscorea, Epiphyte, Epoch (geology), Evergreen forest, Family (biology), Fern, Ficus, Garuga pinnata, Genus, Gmelina, Grewia, Haor, Hindu, Hoolock gibbon, Hopea odorata, Humidity, India, Indigenous (ecology), Indigenous peoples, Kamalganj Upazila, List of protected areas of Bangladesh, Madhupur tract, Mammal, Melocanna baccifera, Moulvibazar District, Muslim, ..., National park, Nature reserve, Noakhali District, Oak, Old-growth forest, Para, Bangladesh, Phyllanthus emblica, Piper (plant), Pliocene, Punji stick, Reflection seismology, Sandstone, Sangu Matamuhari, Satchari National Park, Secondary forest, Shrub, Species, Sreemangal Upazila, Sundarbans, Sylhet, Sylhet Division, Syzygium, Tectona, Terminalia (plant), Tertiary, Tetrameles, The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, Toona ciliata, Tributary, Tripuri people, Undergrowth, Understory, United States Agency for International Development, Unocal Corporation, Vine, Western hoolock gibbon, Zanthoxylum rhetsa. Expand index (37 more) »

Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Alpinia

Alpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae.

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Alstonia scholaris

Alstonia scholaris (commonly called blackboard tree, devil tree, ditabark, milkwood-pine,saptparni,shaitan tree,white cheesewood) is an evergreen tropical tree in the family Apocynaceae.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Artocarpus

Artocarpus is a genus of approximately 60 trees and shrubs of Southeast Asian and Pacific origin, belonging to the mulberry family, Moraceae.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bambusa burmanica

Bambusa burmanica is a species of Bambusa bamboo.

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Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (বাংলাদেশ পরিবেশ আইনজীবি সমিতি), or BELA (বেলা), is a nonprofit legal organization established in 1992 to assist efforts to protect the environment.

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Betel

The betel (Piper betle) is the leaf of a vine belonging to the Piperaceae family, which includes pepper and kava.

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Bhawal National Park

Bhawal National Park (ভাওয়াল জাতীয় উদ্যান) is a nature reserve and the national park of Bangladesh.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

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Bridelia retusa

Bridelia retusa is a species of Bridelia found in Bangladesh, Nepal,, forestrynepal.org India, Sri Lanka, southern China, Indochina, Thailand and Sumatra.

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Calamus (palm)

Calamus is a genus of the palm family Arecaceae.

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Cassia fistula

Cassia fistula, known as the golden rain tree, canafistula and by other names, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.

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Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation.

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Climate

Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.

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Comilla District

Comilla District, officially known as Cumilla District, is a district of Bangladesh located about 100 kilometres south east of Dhaka.

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Curcuma

Curcuma is a genus of about 100 accepted species in the family Zingiberaceae that contains such species as turmeric and Siam Tulip.

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Cyclone

In meteorology, a cyclone is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Dhaka

Dhaka (or; ঢাকা); formerly known as Dacca is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

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Dillenia

Dillenia is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Dilleniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of southern Asia, Australasia, and the Indian Ocean islands.

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Dioscorea

Dioscorea is a genus of over 600 species of flowering plants in the family Dioscoreaceae, native throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Epoch (geology)

In geochronology, an epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale that is longer than an age but shorter than a period.

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Evergreen forest

An evergreen forest is forest made up of evergreen trees.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Fern

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.

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Garuga pinnata

Garuga pinnata is a deciduous tree species from the family Burseraceae.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Gmelina

Gmelina is a genus of plants in family Lamiaceae.

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Grewia

The large flowering plant genus Grewia is today placed by most authors in the mallow family Malvaceae, in the expanded sense as proposed by in the APG.

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Haor

A haor (হাওর., ꠀꠅꠞ) is a wetland ecosystem in the north eastern part of Bangladesh which physically is a bowl or saucer shaped shallow depression, also known as a backswamp.

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Hindu

Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.

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Hoolock gibbon

The hoolock gibbons are three primate species of genus Hoolock in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae, native to eastern Bangladesh, Northeast India and Southwest China.

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Hopea odorata

Hopea odorata, or Ta-khian (ตะเคียน), is a species of plant in the Dipterocarpaceae family.

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Humidity

Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indigenous (ecology)

In biogeography, a species is defined as indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only natural process, with no human intervention.

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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

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Kamalganj Upazila

Kamalganj (কমলগঞ্জ) is an Upazila of the Moulvibazar District in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh.

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List of protected areas of Bangladesh

A list of protected areas of Bangladesh.

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Madhupur tract

Madhupur tract is a large upland area of 4,244 km² in north central part of Bangladesh, stretching from east of Jamalpur in the north, to Fatullah and Narayanganj, in the south.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Melocanna baccifera

The Chittagong forest bamboo, (Melocanna baccifera), is one of two bamboo species belonging to the Melocanna genus.

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Moulvibazar District

Moulvibazar (মৌলভীবাজার, ꠝꠃꠟꠅꠤꠛꠣꠎꠣꠞ) also spelled Maulvibazar, Moulavibazar, and Maulavibazar, is a district of Sylhet Division in North-Eastern Bangladesh.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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National park

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also called a natural reserve, bioreserve, (natural/nature) preserve, or (national/nature) conserve) is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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Noakhali District

Noakhali (নোয়াখালী জেলা.) is a district in South-eastern Bangladesh.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

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Para, Bangladesh

Para is a tribal village located in the Sreemangal Upazila of Maulvibazar District, Bangladesh.

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Phyllanthus emblica

Phyllanthus emblica, also known as emblic, emblic myrobalan, myrobalan, Indian gooseberry, Malacca tree, or amla from Sanskrit amalaki is a deciduous tree of the family Phyllanthaceae.

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Piper (plant)

Piper, the pepper plants or pepper vines (a term used for certain Clematis in older times), are an economically and ecologically important genus in the family Piperaceae.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Punji stick

The punji stick or punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake.

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Reflection seismology

Reflection seismology (or seismic reflection) is a method of exploration geophysics that uses the principles of seismology to estimate the properties of the Earth's subsurface from reflected seismic waves.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Sangu Matamuhari

Sangu Matamuhari or Sangu Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary—IUCN category II (habitat/species management area)—situated in Bandarban District, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh.

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Satchari National Park

Satchari National Park (সাতছড়ি) is a national park in Habiganj District, Bangladesh.

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Secondary forest

A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has re-grown after a timber harvest, until a long enough period has passed so that the effects of the disturbance are no longer evident.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Sreemangal Upazila

Srimangal (শ্রীমঙ্গল, ꠍ꠆ꠞꠤꠝꠋꠉꠟ) is an Upazila of Maulvibazar District in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh.

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Sundarbans

The Sundarbans is a vast forest in the coastal region of the Bay of Bengal and considered one of the natural wonders of the world.

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Sylhet

Sylhet (সিলেট, ꠍꠤꠟꠐ), also known as Jalalabad, the spiritual capital; is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh.

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Sylhet Division

Sylhet Division (সিলেট বিভাগ, ꠍꠤꠟꠐ ꠛꠤꠜꠣꠉ), also known as Greater Sylhet, is the northeastern division of Bangladesh, named after its main city, Sylhet.

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Syzygium

Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae.

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Tectona

Tectona is a genus of tropical hardwood trees in the mint family, Lamiaceae.

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Terminalia (plant)

Terminalia is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising around 100 species distributed in tropical regions of the world.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.

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Tetrameles

Tetrameles is a genus of flowering plants in the family Tetramelaceae with one species, Tetrameles nudiflora.

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The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates

The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates is a list of highly endangered primate species selected and published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group (IUCN/SSC PSG), the International Primatological Society (IPS), and Conservation International (CI).

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Toona ciliata

Toona ciliata is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout southern Asia from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea and Australia.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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Tripuri people

The Tripuri (also Tipra or Tipperah) people are the original inhabitants of the Twipra Kingdom in North-East India and Bangladesh.

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Undergrowth

Undergrowth usually refers to the vegetation in the lower part of a forest, which can obstruct passage through the forest.

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Understory

In forestry and ecology, understory (or understorey, underbrush, undergrowth) comprises plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor.

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United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

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Unocal Corporation

Union Oil Company of California, dba Unocal is a company that was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century.

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Vine

A vine (Latin vīnea "grapevine", "vineyard", from vīnum "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners.

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Western hoolock gibbon

The western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) is a primate from the gibbon family, Hylobatidae.

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Zanthoxylum rhetsa

Zanthoxylum rhetsa is a tree in the Rutaceae family.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawachara_National_Park

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