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Deep Ecology and Snake Conservation Foundation (DESCF) is a Bangladesh-based wildlife conservation organisation working at the intersection of herpetofauna conservation, public awareness, and human-wildlife coexistence. Our work has grown from practical field realities and a commitment to improving how wildlife is understood, communicated, and protected.
Who We Are
Who We Are
Deep Ecology and Snake Conservation Foundation (DESCF) is a Bangladesh-based wildlife conservation organisation with roots in awareness, coexistence, and response-oriented conservation.
Mission
Mission
To conserve wildlife through awareness, coexistence, field engagement, and evidence-informed conservation practice in Bangladesh.
Vission
Vission
A Bangladesh where wildlife and people coexist more safely, and where conservation practice is strengthened by local knowledge, ecological understanding, and long-term responsibility.
Why Our Work Matters
Why Our Work Matters
Wildlife in Bangladesh faces multiple pressures, including habitat change, misinformation, fear-driven persecution, and growing ecological instability. In many cases, the challenge is not only biological, but also social: how people understand wildlife, respond to it, and make decisions in shared environments. DESCF exists to address this space between conservation need and public behaviour.
Our Approach
Our Approach
We believe effective conservation must be practical, credible, and grounded. DESCF works through awareness, communication, field engagement, and learning-oriented conservation practice. We are strongest where ecological understanding meets public action, and where honest, carefully built work matters more than inflated claims.
What We Do Now
What We Do Now
What We Do Now
What We Do Now
Our current work focuses on herpetofauna conservation, public awareness, rescue-response support, wildlife communication, and coexistence-oriented engagement.
What We Are Preparing Next
What We Are Preparing Next
Priority areas now under development include passive acoustic monitoring, anuran bioacoustics, climate-responsive conservation, and conservation-linked green enterprise.
Our current work focuses on herpetofauna conservation, public awareness, rescue-response support, wildlife communication, and coexistence-oriented engagement.
Advisors
Advisors
Leadership
Leadership
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Chairperson
South-eastern Bangladesh contains some of the country’s most important amphibian habitats, particularly hill-streams, seepage zones, riparian litter beds, and shaded
Syeda Anannya faria
Syeda Anannya faria
Executive Director
South-eastern Bangladesh contains some of the country’s most important amphibian habitats, particularly hill-streams, seepage zones, riparian litter beds, and shaded
Alkama Azad
Alkama Azad
Director
South-eastern Bangladesh contains some of the country’s most important amphibian habitats, particularly hill-streams, seepage zones, riparian litter beds, and shaded
Tamanna Israt Mim
Tamanna Israt Mim
Director
South-eastern Bangladesh contains some of the country’s most important amphibian habitats, particularly hill-streams, seepage zones, riparian litter beds, and shaded
Governance Note
Governance Note
South-eastern Bangladesh contains some of the country’s most important amphibian habitats, particularly hill-streams, seepage zones, riparian litter beds, and shaded moist forest microhabitats. Bangladesh’s national amphibian Red List and protected-area studies indicate that amphibians are a real conservation concern in the country and that many species depend strongly on aquatic, forest-floor, and other moisture-sensitive habitats. The upper Sangu–Matamuhuri forest landscape is therefore a justified setting for a practical amphibian habitat project.
We do not present ambition as achievement. Our goal is to build conservation work that is honest, useful, and increasingly capable over time.
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