M Abdullah "Diyan" Abu Diyan, Bangladesh/Australia
xTTT2014-2019 x2019TTT x2018TTT x2014TTT x2012Scholar xBangladesh xAsia xClimate Change xMarine xMammal xMangrove xForest xWhale
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Current Status: (from Linkedin Profile) July 2014 – Present ArcGIS Trainer, Juniper GIS Services, Inc, Adelaide, Australia
2019 Status: Diyan was a participant in the first-ever SCGIS TTT 2019 Summit Meeting.
2019 Conference Presentation
"SCGIS Scholarship’s Butterfly Effect: Conserving the Magical Mangroves " SESSION: Human & Wildlife Relationships
2019 ABSTRACT "SCGIS Scholarship’s Butterfly Effect: Conserving the Magical Mangroves "
Presenter: M Abdullah Abu Diyan, Bangladesh Cetacean Diversity Project, Bangladesh/Australia
"This is a personal account of how my participation in the SCGIS scholarship program provided the means to implement GIS technologies for helping to conserve the magical mangroves of Bangladesh. The Sundarbans Mangrove Forest is the largest mangrove in the world shared by Bangladesh and India. Sundarbans is the last remaining habitat of the endangered Bengal tigers in Bangladesh and supports the largest known population of endangered freshwater dolphins – Ganges river dolphin and Irrawaddy dolphin. Climate change, poaching, habitat degradation, management issues, over-exploitation of resources, and human-wildlife conflict are some of the issues that make wildlife conservation challenging in
