Bangladeshi forests stripped bare as Rohingya refugees battle to survive

Mongabay
Jan 9, 2018, 3:15 pm195 pts
KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh – Look out from the high-ground in the middle of Kutupalong and two sights fill the eyes: Myanmar’s green hills silhouetted in the east and dehydrated, denuded mounds pocked by the blue-black tarpaulin sheets of makeshift shelters everywhere else. That jarring contrast in…

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