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Competing with the water level of sea

Mohammad Saiful Islam

Bangladesh: Ramdaspur Chor (Strip of sandy land rising out of the bed of a river) is at the north of Bhola city. Khorshed Alam met at Santirhat Bazar of this chor. Khorshed Alam is a retailer of pesticide .He showed the open area on front of his shop and told “ This place sank at previous rainy season with the water of flow tide. Water is coming from previous two to three years consequently.”

Another businessman of the same bazaar, Khokon Chowdhury told, “My fishery floated because of AILA at May 25,2009. Local people are doing fishery of the fish of sweet water from 1985. But they are not so brave now to cultivate fish because of increasing water at normal flow tide”.

Water of the river increases more at the new moon and full-moon of rainy season than any other period. Some people of the chor  Read more...

Threat from micro island states to boycott climate summit

Mohammad Saiful Islam

Group of micro island states, AOSIS, gave threat to boycott Cop-15 conference. These states formally announced that they will boycott the conference if the following claims are not fulfilled:
1) Fixing to maintain the density of green house gas to 350 ppm in stead of 450 ppm in the atmosphere.
2) Do not allowing increasing average temperature of the globe more than 1.5 degree Celsius.
3) Giving majority of the fund of climate change to the risky and micro island states.

African Union and group of Lower Developed Countries (LDC) support the claims of AOSIS. More than 100 states to these three groups have established Most Vulnerable Country  Read more...

Plant tree, re-excavate rivers and save Bangladesh

Dulal Chandra Pattak

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Truly speaking, Bangladesh is the most vulnerable country in the world from the ecological point of view. Each and every year we are losing a lot of national and personal wealth due to natural disasters.

Climatologists believe that the southern part of Bangladesh is at very risky position. If everything goes in the swim or if proper steps are not taken, the southern part will go under water very soon. The districts of Satkhira and Bagerhat are the worse sufferers in this case. SIDR, Aila, Flood and Tsunami are some of the clear indications that the day is no more in far that a part of Bangladesh will be submerged within a couple of years.

The government, policy makers and the common people have a great role to play here. Government can take some strong and feasible steps to control it. Now, question is how? Government can take a project on tree plantation in the affected area. For this reason, the government can use the students and teachers of school and colleges of that area to plant trees. They will do it voluntarily to save their area and this will minimize costs. And a lot of student will take part in it; the project will be faster. But the government has to provide the plants and auxiliaries. Besides many of the rivers in this affected area is now about to die.

For example, The Kapatakhi is one of the well known rivers in Bangladesh, which is situated in Khulna division. But it is a matter of great regret that this river is about to die. There is no  Read more...