Additional Context: The project launched in 2024 and was being implemented through the U.N. Development Program, or UNDP. Six local organizations were in the process of being recruited when funding ended. The halted initiative would have expanded work in a biodiversity hotspot and Indigenous homeland, building on years of watershed management and community governance efforts. Planned activities included wildlife protection, monitoring of illegal logging and wildlife trade, Indigenous-led conservation approaches, climate adaptation, and engagement with private-sector actors in some of Bangladesh's most remote landscapes.

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