Climate Change effects – Trauma, Trials and Struggles but no Rights for Climate Refugees
Sundarbans , always well-known for its rich mangrove diversity and Royal Bengal Tiger , is now drawing attention of the world for the drastic climate change effects on the community and the crisis they are facing are coming to the fore. Climate change is a challenge to the development of the community. Apart from loss of lives, livelihood and health impacts, it is creating a huge number of Climate Refugees every year who have no recognition The fishermen boats are resting and preparing for next day's journey The frequent displacement of these coastal communities from one island to another and to nearby cities in search of better livelihood opportunities created a wide range of ecological and socio-economic problems leading to humanitarian crisis. These climate refugees are poorest communities who do not have access to any basic amenities like pure safe drinking water and two times healthy meal. The situation worsened after the cyclone AILA in 2009 , whic