Saglai Sandanchik More and more animals and plants are disappearing forever from the face of the earth. This is not least due to the fact that in the past biologists,…
29.02.2020Today we went on two motorbikes a huge distance of about 50 kilometres into one of the few remaining pieces of forest in the northwest of Bangladesh.This is where the…
28.02.2020 Today we were in a village, or rather in a community, the Patni, who have undergone an amazing change. Today they are a group of basket weavers who offer…
The Santal are a small minority who settle in different regions of Bangladesh. They are actually forest users, but were hired to clear forest land during the British colonisation of India and later used it as farmland. This is how they came to Bangladesh.
21.02.2020Trishal is a small town not far from the metropolis of Mymensingh. Mymensingh is an important transport hub on the Meghna River. Trishal has a university whose campus is growing…
A haor is a seasonal inland sea that receives vast amounts of surface runoff water during the rainy season from rivers and canals that flow into this flood basin. However, this wetland ecosystem almost dries up after the rainy season.
Khasi people, Peying River, 16.02.2020From India flows a river into northern Bangladesh, which is called Peyign / Goyain . Before that, the river is called Om. One of the features…
13.03.2019Pathi Char is a small island owned by only one family. The father of our PhD student at the Anthropology Department of the University of Dhaka uses the island with…
The Institute for International Climate Research and Modelling is taking this virtuela path as perhaps the first Saxon virtual research institute. It currently combines about 4 focal points: Bangladesh and the Ganges Delta, the Aral Sea, the Altai and the Far East of Russia. Teams from all over the world will gradually join. This is the task of 2021!
Satkira is the district capital in southwest Bangladesh and was considered by my colleague Hassan to be the museum of disasters. Most of what one can find here is caused by the devastation of the Ayla storm (2009) but also problems with arsenic in the water, the problem of waterlogging arose.
