: First erosion stole their lands. Now climate change is ruining the lives they built on water #IndiaNEWS Shahida Begum’s family lost their land along Bangladesh’s ever-eroding river deltas so long

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First erosion stole their lands. Now climate change is ruining the lives they built on water #IndiaNEWS
Shahida Begum’s family lost their land along Bangladesh’s ever-eroding river deltas so long ago that none of her family can remember a life on land.“I was born on a boat on the river, like my father and grandfather. I heard we started living on boats after losing our land and house to the Meghna River,� Begum, 30, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.Today, Begum’s entire community – known as the Manta people – live aboard small boats on two of the nation’s major rivers. It is a challenging way to survive – but one more Bangladeshis may be driven to adopt as climate change and sea level rise speed land erosion.Only in death are most Manta taken permanently ashore – to be buried in the soil in accordance with Muslim tradition.“We neither float our dead into the river nor burn them,� said Sohrab Majhi, a Manta leader whose buoyant community lives near Moju Chowdhury Hat, a market village in southeast Bangladesh.“We have to have good relations with people who have at least some land where we can bury our dead.�The Manta used to be farmers and fishermen until the rising rivers engulfed their land and forced them to move onto the Meghna River and its offshoot, the Tetulia,...Read more

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