The act has recently been amended (awaiting final approval and will be released shortly), and will protect all wild birds except House Corvus splendens and Large-billed Crows C. macrohynchos.
Plausible threats to shorebirds and intertidal habitats in Bangladesh that were not discussed or observed during this survey are rural development, particularly on sensitive coastal chars, pollution, hydrological regime change and climate change (for thorough treatment of these threats
see Z๖ckler et al. 2008).