Star lotus, aka red and blue water lilly or Shapla. The white water lilly (Shapla) is Bangladesh’s national flower symbol.The flower grows every watery land and it is the symbol of real green Bangladesh. Allvoices. Photo source : ©© Lecercle
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Due to frequent flooding over the last 50 years, the farms of Baikantapur, about 170 km from the capital of Dhaka, have turned into a wetland. For the residents rice cultivation is now only a memory.
About 50 years ago, Sen said, one could drive or walk through Baikantapur, but not any more. Today, the roads and the entire lowland areas of about 40 sq km remain submerged round the year due to water logging.
But, instead of cursing the havoc created by changing climate, the local inhabitants have made the best of a bad situation by farming on floating bairas– floating islands built of straw and aquatic plants…
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