• The South West of Bangladesh is one of the most climate change affected regions in the world.<br/>
  • Students in Gabura exercise on a playing field next to the cyclone shelter that doubles as their school. The shelter is a lifeline for many of the residents each cyclone season.<br/>
  • Two women walk along a raised road in Gabura surrounded by damaged houses, dying trees and saline fields. Gabura was badly affected by Cyclone Aila that struck on May 25th 2009.<br/>
  • The Gupal family received training to help them adapt their fields to farm rice, vegetables and fish after their land was flooded with saline water during Cyclone Aila in 2009.<br/>
  • Gusto Gupal (37) next to his fresh water pond and vegetable garden in the village of East Jelekhali. His land was flooded with saline water during Cyclone Aila in 2009.<br/>
  • Gusto Gupal (37) and his wife Radha work on their vegetable patch on the raised dykes. They now use integrated farming techniques which allows them to use the same fresh water to grow rice and farm fish in the same field.<br/>
  • Gusto Gupal (37) working in his rice field. According to the IPCC, it is predicated by 2030 that the sea level will rise by about 30cm, enough to wipe out over 6,300 sq km of highly populated prime agricultural land in this region.<br/>
  • People going to work through the rice fields and shrimp farms early morning on a foggy day in Shyamnagar.<br/>
  • Noren Sardar (67) from the fishing village of Jelepala. The traditional fishing communities are looked down on by wider society and often the children are not accepted into the local schools
  • Sujan Sardar (8) at the Caritas Environmental School in Jelepala. Before the school was built there were few opportunities for children from this area to be educated. They are now also taught environmental subjects about climate change to help them prepare for the future.<br/>
  • (Left) Sujan Sadar (8) rowing his fathers fishing boat with Raju Sadar (10), Before the school was built they would have had no access to education and would be working on the fishing boats or domestic duties at home full time.<br/>
  • Friends of Sujan & Raju wait for them to dock their fishing boat at the end of the day before starting a game of cricket.<br/>
  • School girls walk along a raised road in Gabura surrounded by damaged houses, dying trees and saline fields. Gabura was badly affected by Cyclone Aila.<br/>
  • Parimal Mondal in Harinagar village was the first person to use the experimental BR-47 saline tolerant rice. He changed from just shrimp farming which was bad for the environment and killing his crops and livestock to using crop rotation and fresh water management.<br/>
  • Very little grows around the shrimp farms due to the high volume of salinity in the surrounding soil. The farms have been ecologically disastrous for the environment in this region.<br/>
  • A fresh water canal in Shyamnagar. Due to the high rate of salinity in the surrounding soil due to shrimp farming, sea level rises and tidal surges during cyclones, very little grows without this critical fresh water supplies.<br/>
  • Khadija Begum (61) in Gabura. She along with 11 members of her family had to flee their home when Cyclone Aila destroyed it. They have resettled on these embankments for the past 2 years.<br/>
  • A fisherman navigates a small canal alongside the Kholpetua River in Gabura. Many fishermen catch crabs or shrimp larvae in the Sundarbans National Park. They will be sold to traders then exported to other Asian countries.<br/>
  • Nurjahan Sheik (30) along with the rest of his village had to flee when Cyclone Aila destroyed it. They hope to return one day but with no money and no reconstruction of their village they are not hopeful.<br/>
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