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Green coalition should be strengthened to protect the nature and culture of the coast

Press Release (Shyamnagar, Satkhira) Shyamnagar Upazila Youth Voluntary Coordinating Committee, Upazila Green Solidarity Coordination Committee and BARCIK jointly organized meeting titled “Green youth coalition to protect the nature and culture of the coast” yesterday 28 April in Shymanagar of Satkhira district. The meeting was presided over by convener of Upazila Green coalition coordination Committee Kumud […]

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The use of Environment-friendly oven increased in the coast

By Mononjoy Mandal from Satkhira The use of oven in rural life is immense. It has been seen that people in different areas of Bangladesh use different types of ovens. However, conventional ovens consume more fuel and take longer time for cooking. Using conventional oven makes the kitchen full with black smoke, and grime and

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A Green Coalition for protecting the Coast

Bablu Joardar from the coast   Climate change has posed extreme threats globally including Bangladesh. But despite this climate change related threats human beings have not restrained themselves from their nature-destroying activities. Nature and environment are being destroyed every day in the name of development! The new generation will suffer the terrible consequences of this

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The success of Neela Rani in cultivation of diverse crops

By Protima Rani from Satkhira The people in the coast generally depend on agriculture for their livelihood. The farmers of the area produce rice, vegetable and other crops to earn their livelihood. But the unplanned shrimp cultivation that seeps the saline water into the cultivable land and frequent climate induced disasters have somehow disrupted their

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Cash saved in ‘disaster bank’ invested to rebuild Sitrang-damaged kitchen

By Md. Abdul Alim from Satkhira   28-Year old Anjali Rani is one of many tiger widows (in Bengali: bagh bidhoba are women whose husbands have been killed by tigers) lives in the remote village of East Chunkuri of Munshiganj union in coastal Satkhira district of Bangladesh which faces the fury of nature as it

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Don’t you hear the cry of the coast?

Bablu Joardar from Satkhira Shyamnagar The Environmental development club, CDO, Sundarban Students Solidarity Team and research institute BARCIK recently organized  song, rally, human chain and discussion in Neeldumur Alauddin Market of Burigoalini Union of Shyamnagar Upazila, ahead of the climate conference. The world’s largest climate conference which is known as Conference of the Parties (COP27)

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Integrated initiatives restored natural environment of the village

Gazi Al Imran from the coast The communities in the coastal area many times suffer due to repeated natural disasters, flooding, unplanned shrimp farming and saline water intrusion into the agricultural lands. This leads the communities to change their occupations and migrate to other areas for searching of livelihoods. Due to lack of employment in

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Conservation of local variety of seeds will keep the coast safe

Gazi Al Imran from Shyamnagar, Satkhira The farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh practiced sustainable agriculture and conserved the seeds of all t local varieties in their house. These seeds were conserved in different earthen pots to farm in the year as well as exchanged them with others. But today the culture of seed

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