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March against coal plant threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest
2016-03-02 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands of Bangladeshis will march from the countrys capital, Dhaka, to the worlds biggest mangrove forest next week in protest at plans to build two coal-power plants on the edge of the World Heritage-listed forest. The organisers of the so-called long march on 10 March hope to persuade the Bangladeshi government to drop its backing for construction of the plants near the Sundarbans, an area of rice paddies, shrimp farms and vast mangrove forests. No sensible person will deny that there...
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