A fable of The Alternate Well-liked has been named amongst the World Investigative Journalism Network’s (GIJN) list of ‘Most effective Investigations from Bangladesh’ in 2024.
The fable, ‘CHT forests being razed for cassava farming, harming biodiversity‘ by Shamsuddin Illius, aspects out that cassava farming within the Chittagong Hill Tracts is stripping the hills of their vegetation and causing the destruction of hundreds of acres of forest lands to bear reach for unusual cultivation.
“After the reporter used to be tipped off in regards to the affect of cassava farming and its affect by a citizen’s platform, he went to the discipline to focus on to a bunch of stakeholders, at the side of leaseholders, farmers, plant life and fauna experts, and company corporations investing in cassava plantations there,” the GIJN stated in its list printed the day before lately (12 December).
“Monocultures can pose environmental possibility, rising damage and intensifying the affect on the soil, which in flip can outcome in landslides amongst varied components in charge for forest degradation, the reporter found.
“An alarming image of seemingly future damage moreover emerged right by the reporting, amid claims that immense agricultural corporations are planning to bear bigger the farming of the nick within the gap,” it added.
