Sonadia Island, located off the coast of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, is a vital coastal ecosystem rich in biodiversity. It supports endangered sea turtles, including olive ridleys and green turtles, nesting on its beaches. The island is a key habitat for migratory shorebirds and diverse marine life, including fish, crabs, and mollusks. MarineLife Alliance works here to monitor and protect sea turtles, restore habitats, and reduce bycatch. However, Sonadia faces serious threats from coastal development, illegal fishing, plastic pollution, and climate change. Conservation efforts are crucial to safeguard this ecologically significant island and the communities that depend on its natural resources.
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- Patrick Garnett
This is about 100 kms long (Najirartek at the north to Badar Mokam south at Shahporirdwip) sandy beach with boulder habitat in intertidal zone at some points. At the east of the beach and plain cultivated land up to Cox’s Bazar hilly forested area of semi evergreen type extends from Cox’s Bazar to Teknaf, although most of the forest area are degraded during the last decades severe deforestation. During the last 10 years beach front lands already been sold to resort developers, thus new threats are coming in future along the entire coast. Most of the southern part of the beach is full of fishing activity as well as gulls and terns also roost in many thousands. A large number of people living along this coast and around 600 boats are landed here in 22 deferent areas. Currently the tourism area increasing, but still there are large areas suitable for turtle nesting and wintering birds roosting. A number of village growth centers along the coast are in place. The average width of the peninsular beach is 100- 150m, and up to 400-500 m wide in some places. The sandy beaches are fringed with shore vegetation dominated by Ipomea. In addition, Nishinda (Vitex sp.) is present at Inani beach and few Screw Pine (Pandanus) jungles has been recorded along beaches. The entire area is of the coastal strip at the east is subtropical moist semi evergreen forested also much of this is degraded due to severe deforestation during the last 3 decades. More than 300 olive ridley nests recorded seasonally 2013-16 and some spots are very important with higher nesting frequencies. 23 spots have been reported for olive ridley nesting.
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- Patrick Garnett
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- Patrick Garnett
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