Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Abdul Awal Mintoo held a courtesy meeting with Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Sept 7.
State Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Sheikh Faridul Islam was also present.
During the meeting, the two sides agreed to hold the next meeting of the Joint Working Group on biodiversity conservation in the Sundarbans in Bangladesh under the existing memorandum of understanding between the two countries.
They also agreed to hold the next bilateral meeting in Bangladesh under the protocol signed for Royal Bengal Tiger conservation.
The two sides decided that the next meeting on transboundary conservation of the Asian elephant would be held in India.