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TO GO WITH Bangladesh-environment-shipping, FEATURE by Shafiq Alam Abul Kalam (R) poses for a photo at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakundu some 30 kms from the port city Chittagong on January 15, 2010. When a 20-foot-high wall of waves hit Bangladesh's sleepy, southeastern Sitakundu coastline after a 1991 cyclone, shopkeeper Abul Kalam survived by hanging on to a coconut tree. Bangladesh may be on the "front line" of climate change but local environmentalists say that rampant deforestation, particularly by ship breaking yards which lie in vulnerable coastal areas, is making things worse. AFP PHOTO/Munir uz ZAMAN (Photo credit should read MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)