Environment adviser’s words must be turned into action
Bangladesh has more than 200 environmental protection laws. Yet, our environment and natural resources continue to see unprecedented degradation.
One by one, our rivers are being killed
Government offices must overcome their inadequacies to play a bigger role
How are grabbers getting away with frequent onslaughts on its banks?
We were dumbfounded to see the picture of one such river published in this daily yesterday, which shows a stretch of the Harihar River at Swaranpur village in Jashore’s Manirampur upazila that local influentials have occupied and divided into at least 50 small ponds by building dams for fish farming.
The National River Conservation Commission has decided not to publish a list of 37,000 new encroachers of 48 rivers and the environment activists say protecting their identities is tantamount to siding with the grabbers.
One must recognise the fact that grabbers in Bangladesh have taken the enterprise to the highest level of creativity and perfection.
Without realising the importance of rivers, particularly by the government, we cannot save our rivers
The High Court releases the full text of a judgement issuing 17 directives to save the country’s rivers and waterbodies from pollution and encroachers.
