Additional Context: This information is based on 150 semi-structured interviews conducted by One Earth Partners across five countries selected to represent the diversity of USAID's environmental work. Interview findings were triangulated with a global survey of 175 respondents and external media analysis.

This information was also reported by a local news outlet in Bangladesh. According to The Daily Star, conservation efforts in the area have already been suffering a "silent collapse" in the timeframe after U.S. aid cuts, with enforcement failures, government capacity shortages, and insufficient inter-agency coordination leaving the area vulnerable to poaching, fishing, and littering, among other environmental hazards.

Source: One Earth Partners (Full report forthcoming).