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Dr Noorjahan Sarker, a retired professor of the Department of Zoology at Dhaka University, is no more. She passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital at 10:30am on Thursday (Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un). She was 78 at the time of her death.
Departmental chairman Dr Md Aminul Islam Bhuiyan has expressed condolences on behalf of the Department of Zoology at her death.
She leaves behind an outstanding contribution to the conservation of Bangladesh’s biodiversity and to research on the subject.
Professor Dr Noorjahan Sarker was born in Jhalakathi district in 1948. She obtained her master’s degree from the Department of Zoology at Dhaka University in 1971 and received her PhD from the University of Bordeaux in France in 1974.
She joined the Department of Zoology at Dhaka University as a lecturer in 1975. She received various honours including the ‘Award for Wildlife Conservation-2015’ in recognition of her special contribution to biodiversity conservation. More than a hundred of her research papers have been published in local and foreign journals. She also has several books on wildlife.
