The Bangladeshi crab farmers battling climate crisis - and pirates

With rising seas swallowing their land and kidnappings a regular hazard, families scraping a living farming crab and shrimp in one of the world's largest mangrove forests are fighting to survive "The river is so hungry," says Peramin Ishak, as he gestures to a missing arc of land from the muddy embankment. "It just keeps eating the land."From his village of Datina Khali, which rests on the edge of the Bangladeshi Sundarbans, Ishak has watched the river swallow up a three hectare (seven acre) chunk of land in the past decade. Continue reading...