The coastal people of Cox’s Bazar and Chattogram are left exposed to the wrath of natural disasters as a vast swath of mangrove forest which serves as a natural shield against cyclones was cleared up over the years to develop economic zones and shrimp farming along coastal belts.
For the longest river in the country, the Brahmaputra is in quite the awful state. Years of rampant river grabbing and sand lifting has put its existence in such a crisis that even its tributaries are in danger today.