Write An Essay On Endangered Forest

1. Introduction
The world today is faced with a huge problem; the problem of disappearing forests and associated habitats. While global warming is on the rise due to higher levels of greenhouse gases being emitted all the time from large-scale industrialization and to accommodate the never-ending expansion of the world population, the depletion of the CO2 absorbers, trees and plants, is also to blame. Hundreds of species of animals and plants are going extinct, while many are being recorded down in the list of endangered/protected species every year. Sundarbans is one of the biggest examples of human exploitation on forests and its flora and fauna in the world. This amazingly diverse and resource-rich ecoregion was declared a reserved forest

However, that is not enough. It is also important to put a value on these natural resources and, if possible, the reserve as a whole to develop the sector of ecotourism (Farham, 2007), which in turn produces revenues to better manage the reserves (Khan, 2004), and also, to establish both physical and official infrastructure to better protect these important parts from further destruction (Rana et al., 2010). Unfortunately, for our generation, not much research has been done in this area and definitely not in the context of Bangladesh which actually holds around 20% more of this forest area than our neighbors with whom we share the Sundarbans, India (Interview with Kabir, 2015). Keeping this gap in the literature in mind and with the desire of producing a proper value for the Sundarbans Reserved Forest (SRF) from the viewpoint of the Bangladeshi people, this dissertation topic started off, and it aims to use travel cost valuation technique to put an economic value on SFR. The responses of national visitors to this area and their responses have been used to establish the value after much analysis. In addition, their willingness to pay to protect the SFR played the dominant role in providing a value for a proposed