CASE STUDIES FROM BANGLADESH TO COINCIDE WITH RELEASE OF TEARFUND REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE UNDERWAY IN BALI.......VILLAGERS ON THE ISLAND VILLAGE OF HASHAR CHAR, SOUTH BANGLASDESH STAND IN WHAT REMAINS OF A FORMER HOUSE WHICH HAS BEEN ENGULFED BY RISING SEA-LEVELS...THE VILLAGE HAS BEEN DRIVEN 3KM INLAND AND WAS RECENTLY DEVASTED BY CYCLONE SIDR WHICH CLAIMED 300 PEOPLE ON THE ISLAND...VILLAGERS DESCRIBE HAVING TO MOVE THEIR HOUSES AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR...
more »CASE STUDIES FROM BANGLADESH TO COINCIDE WITH RELEASE OF TEARFUND REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE UNDERWAY IN BALI.......VILLAGERS ON THE ISLAND VILLAGE OF HASHAR CHAR, SOUTH BANGLASDESH STAND IN WHAT REMAINS OF A FORMER HOUSE WHICH HAS BEEN ENGULFED BY RISING SEA-LEVELS...THE VILLAGE HAS BEEN DRIVEN 3KM INLAND AND WAS RECENTLY DEVASTED BY CYCLONE SIDR WHICH CLAIMED 300 PEOPLE ON THE ISLAND...VILLAGERS DESCRIBE HAVING TO MOVE THEIR HOUSES AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR TO ESCAPE THE ENCROACHING SEA...AS THEY DO SO THEY CUT BACK INTO THE MANGROVE FOREST AND AS ONE VILLAGER SAID:''WE DON'T WHY BUT WE KNOW THAT OUR ISLAND IS SHRINKING AND ONE DAY WE WILL RUN OUT OF SPACE.''..BEHIND THEM IS THE CURRENT LOCATION OF THEIR HOUSES AND DEBRIS IN THE TREES SHOWS THE WATER LEVEL DURING CYCLONE SIDR.....TEARFUND IS PUSHING FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION TO BE AN URGENT GOVERNMENT PRIORITY...SINCE THE POOREST COMMUNITIES ARE BEING HIT FIRST AND WORST.....FILENAME:BANGLA6
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