Sinking Sundarbans - Climate voices from India

http://www.greenpeace.org/voices

At the mouth of the Ganges River lies the Sundarbans - 20,000 square kilometres of Unesco protected Mangrove forest stretching between India and Bangladesh. It is home to 500 endangered Bengali tigers, countless crocodiles and around 4.3 million people.

Experiencing sea-level rise faster than any other place on Earth, these fragile islands are disappearing quickly. In last 20 years four islands have been submerged leaving 6,000 families displaced. It is estimated that 30,000 people will lose their homes by 2020 as 15 percent of the Sundarbans habitable land will be gone.

Increased frequency and strength of tropical storms and higher tides are making the people of the Sundarbans victims of climate change. This is their story.

Photographs by Peter Caton. Interviews Cristiane Aoki.

View original at http://www.greenpeace.org/bearingwitness/sundarbans

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• India
• bangladesh
• tigers
• sundarbans
• climate change
• global warming
• impacts
• victims
• storytelling
• voices
• photo-essay
• photographer
• photo
• Peter Caton
• Greenpeace
• flooding
• cyclone Aila

[Panjabiwaala]

I'm from Dhaka City and have seen the devastations all around during aila, sidr and the major floods, working for relief funds and rescue missions as a representative of my college ..Its hard when you find out you, your home, your beautiful wildlife all are going to be drowned by 2050..Its for real..

[MJDsignTV]

its like we dont realize how bad it is

and ow bad it gonna be.....

in my live I will participate a flood

and this is not to make fair but look at the world today..

[SCCCymru]

incredible photographs, well done on making this video! reminds us why we must take action on climate change here in Wales

[CONTRAHABS]

@Panjabiwaala 2050! lol Call me insane but i think the antarctic is melting way faster than that.

[0261F]

er.....what i see, i would like to know why the world seperate 2 class of people, and both of them are running to such extreme situation. the poor just seems to get poorer ,and still live in a place as some hundred years before without being develop any thing, but the rich one really live in better and better...it should not be turned into this kind of situation.....

[chrisbest1000]

Makes me sad how we the world can not change climate change everyone should be apart of helping a great world, I think we all feel bad how we treat the world like polution, mining and globle warming. We all have rights to change our world and I really think you can help it change. God bless our climate activists.

[stimulater7]

chile earthquake = melting poles...the sea bed cant stand the extra weight= glacial rebound

[quintano65]

Great job!!! keep up the good work.

[romeosevendelta]

the next time there's a horrible storm, i'm blaming india.

[WolYou]

@Panjabiwaala Forget about the deniers. They are remote controlled by the oil companies. They have no clue about anything. They just want to go on with the life style they know. What can they do except denying? None of them is a scientist. But the guys behind climate-gate are actually the ones who are accused to build a secret government. Its funny to see all of those "truthseekers" being screwed by the ones they want to attack.

[WolYou]

@romeosevendelta the only thing one can learn from "climate-gate" is that the deluded retards there ain't got a clue about chemistry and dynamic of the oceans and the atmospere but they've got a lot of opinions. You may take climate-gate and shove it.