The Environmental Impacts of the Pulp and Paper Industry in Bangladesh
Karnaphuli Paper Mill (KPM), the oldest and largest integrated pulp and paper manufacturer in Bangladesh and a state owned enterprise, has been regularly dumping massive quantities of liquid waste into the Karnaphuli River since it started its operations in 1953. A...
Bangladesh: Land, Forest and Forest People (3rd edition)
Bangladesh is amazingly green. However, at the same time, it is a forest-poor country. Officially, 18% of the country (2.6 million hectares) is public forestland. 2013, English 284 pages(3rd edition), Paperback | Tk.300 / US$15 Bangladesh is amazingly...
Inception Seminar
"Many ethnic communities of Bangladesh are constitutionally and statistically invisible." - Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman, executive chairman, Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) said that many of the ethnic communities of Bangladesh...
Inception Seminar Held
The Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD) organized an inception seminar for the project, "Mapping and capacity building of tea workers and little-known ethnic communities of Bangladesh" on 8 September 2013 in Dhaka. "Many ethnic...
Shores of Tear documentary film (Bangla and English in DVD)
Abdul Khalil has lost everything to the cyclone Aila. Or is nature only to blame? The enlightening documentary presents how shrimp cultivation has devastated coastal villagers like Abdul Khalil, even as they try to fend off the devastating strike of Mother...
SEHD books “The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Man-Nature Nexus Torn” and “Energy Challenges and Phulbari Crisis” launched
SEHD launched two new books: (i) The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Man-Nature Nexus Torn and (ii) Energy Challenges and Phulbari Crisis on 26 June 2013 at the National Press Club VIP Lounge. The books present facts, anecdotes, images, essential information and...
SEHD launches book and organizes photography exhibition in Bandarban
Launches of photography exhibition, “Ambushed by Greed: The Chak Story” and book, “The Chaks: Life on the Fringe" held at 02:30 PM on 15 June 2013 at the Bandarban Shishu Academy. A weeklong photography exhibition and a book launch event took place at...
Bangladesh: Land, Forest and Forest People
Forest resources, land rights and the situation of forest people, deforestation and other land and forest related issues.1998 (2nd Edition), English, 187 pages, Paperback | Tk.250 / US$10 Land is like gold in Bangladesh. Per capita cultivable land in the...
Postcards
Bangladesh: Land of Beauty and Diversity. Postcards on people and nature.Set of 20 - Tk.200 / US$12 | Set of 20 - Tk.100 / US$6 Bangladesh: land of beauty and diversity. Postcards on Bangladesh's environment and ethnic people in sets of 20 or 10. Postcard...