By Sanjida Yeasmin | Project Leader
Bangladesh environment and Development Society (BEDS) has observed The Earth Day 2022 on 22nd April. The day was celebrated with the aim to spread awareness about issues, including environmental pollution, deforestation, climate change and global warming together with 100 local coastal people living adjacent to Sundarbans. A mangrove tree plantation activity and social art work event was organized to observe the day besides the bank of Poshur river at Kakrabunia, Dacope, Khulna. The theme for Earth Day 2022 is "INVEST IN OUR PLANET", focusing on the effects of climate change on the planet that we all share and what efforts are being made in the real world to mitigate it.
Sundarbans the world’s largest mangrove forest with unique ecosystem and biodiversity is under the threat because of global warming and climate change. So, there is urgent need of taking necessary steps to conserve the mangrove forest with the active involvement of local people. On Earth Day team BEDS planted 600 mangrove saplings together with local people at the bank of Poshur river to increase the mangrove coverage of that area and stop river bank erosion. 100 people including the local government, political leader, teacher, school students and coastal people were participated on the event. They planted the mangrove saplings with various hope in their mind. By holding several placards displaying the importance of community based mangrove restoration and Happy earth day 2022, they encouraged other people to be involved in community based mangrove restoration.
In the social artwork event 20 coastal children drawn the concept of the importance of mangrove in their daily life and they knew about the steps required for successful mangrove plantation in a sustainable way. It was a very new concept which they learned through this event and they also enjoyed the celebration of earth day through the activities.
Any initiative taken for the sake of local people will only be successful when local people take participate on those initiative. So, team BEDS always tried to involve local people in mangrove restoration activity for their better future with nature.
We would like to thank all our donors for their support for us. We are also requesting our donors to start monthly recurring donations. For recurring donation please find the link below;
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/mangrove-plantation-for-coastal-protection/
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can recieve an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
