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Gifted and Talented Half Term Geography Challenge: The Future of Bangladesh
Your task is to post on the wall the following:
1) Facts about Bangladesh
2) Information about how Bangladesh will Be affected by Climate Change
3) Information about how Bangladesh is trying to manage the effects of climate change
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This is an example of a post. Below is a video showing how Bangladeshis are adapting to rising sea levels.
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This is a video showing how Bangladesh is adapting to the disasters that are prone because of climate change.
Bangladesh is ever threatened by floods and have already invested thousands of pounds to build disaster defences such as cyclone shelters. Click link for more:
A picture of a woman wading through water shows the conditions that the people of Bangladesh have to face often.
This website shows what we can do to help stop climate change and save Bangladesh from the many disasters that she faces.
What I have learnt from researching Bangladesh is that climate change isn't just the ice melting but it is actually affecting people and their livelihoods.
Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to natural disasters due to the frequency of extreme climate events and its high population.
This picture shows us the kind of conditions the people of Bangladesh have to face frequently. It also shows what these people are doing to carry on.
In Bangladesh climate change is affecting many sectors one of these being water resources also a predicted rainfall increase will cause more floodprone areas.
This article shows us that it is not only humans who are suffering greatly from climate change.
This picture shows us how people in Bangladesh just have to try to carry on with their ordinary lifestyles.
Below is a picture of many houses destroyed due to a huge flood. Bangladesh is flood prone. Crops and cattle are going to suffer if something is not done.
Scientists predict that within the next 50 years, 20 million people will die from floods or cyclones, this is equal to the amount of people living in Australia.
Bangladesh is trying to protect themselves from the climate problem, but it will cost $4 billion to build embankments and shelters and so will take alot of time
This artical shows that scientists in Bangladesh don't believe the amount of land being added on to the country is enough to save it from climate change.
This picture shows how portable stoves and utensils are helping women prepare food during floods.
There has always been a problem with flooding in Bangladesh but it is getting worse due to the affects of climate change but at a quicker rate than expected
This picture shows a mother trying to paddle along the flood waters wih her young son looking for drinking water. It shows how people struggle when floods hit.
Bangldesh has a high population making it over croed, it is also one if the poorest countries in the world.
Many natural disasters hit but they are becoming more severe and less predictable due to climate change as this vidoe shows.
This article shows what other countries are doing to help the growing problem of the affects of climate change in Bangladesh.
apparently bangladesh may lose up to one third of it's land, making overcrowding even worse for a country that has a mere 1,399 gdp per capita (ppp)
if bangladesh does lose 1/3 of it's land then the effects would be catastrophic. Countries like th UK and america would have to spend millions on providing aid.
This video shows how a woman is coping when her house gets washed away by the flood in Bangladesh.
This report is from July 2004 so it shows the flooding has been going on for some time. However all the quotes say it is getting worse and worse.
This website gives loads of facts about bangladesh!!!
this article from the Idependent in 2007 hilights that Bangladesh is at the mercy of climate change because of its location
Well I think Bangladesh should never have been bulit on a flood plain. It's simply suicide. If I had any power i would evacuate the area to a safer location.
This picture is showing how humans help the animals to survive.
I teach Geography at St. Edmund's school in Salisbury, Wiltshire. I am really impressed by your wall. There are some very intelligent geographers at your school