Bangladesh: Thousands March to Oppose World’s Worst Location for a Coal Plant

EcoWatch: Buriganga Riverkeeper Sharif Jamil and hundreds of his fellow Bangladeshis, including BAPA, the largest civil society platform in Bangladesh for the environment, and the National Committee for Saving Sundarbans (NCSS), are fighting to save the Sundarbans, an irreplaceable world heritage site, from the destruction of a massive new coal-fired power plant. To show the government the size and scale of the opposition, they began a five-day, 400-kilometer march from Dhaka to Rampal on Tuesday. Their goal......

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