**5.2 Habitat degradation and fragmentation**

Habitat fragmentation and degradation are currently the most important factor for the biodiversity loss in Bangladesh. With the ever-growing human population in the country and coupled up with other reasons, wildlife habitats are being destroyed and fragmented in an alarming rate [5, 10, 15], and as such, different vertebrate wildlife groups face conservation threats at various levels (**Figure 8**). We would like to summarize the major reasons of habitat degradation and fragmentation in a very brief way.
