Land grabs threaten environment in Bangladeshi capital

During the past 20 years, land grabs in Dhaka have swallowed two-thirds of its ecologically important wetlands. As a result, the low-lying megacity has increasingly been flooded as climate change hastens extreme weather effects.

Al Jazeera’s @TanvirChowdhury reports from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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