BANGLADESHI FAMILIES LOSE THEIR HOMES TO RIVER EROSION

MUNSHIGONJ, BANGLADESH - JANUARY 24 : People losing their homes causes of Padma river erosion in Munshigonj near Dhaka, Bangladesh on January 24, 2016. Erosion is endemic in Bangladesh with millions affected as farmland, crops, and villages are destroyed. A 2013 study by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit at the University of Dhaka and the UK-based Sussex Centre for Migration Research estimated that riverbank erosion displaces 50,000 to 200,000 people in Bangladesh every year. Bangladesh is one of the most populated countries in the world having 32% coastal area that is 47,211 square kilometers, 35 million people live in the coastal area which is 28% of the total population. According to the specialist development activities of mankind, especially, the over exploitation and pollution of the water resource and biodiversity have increased the risks of the disasters as a result of climate changes such as river erosion.