(6 Dec 2007) SHOTLIST
Southkhali, Bagerhat - 22 November, 2007
1. Various of people walking past houses damaged and destroyed by Cyclone Sidr
2. Fallen trees and destroyed houses on riverbank
3. Wide of people boarding boat with dead cattle in river
Dhaka - 01 December, 2007
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ainun Nishat, Country Director, World Conservation Union:
"We apprehend that due to climate change, a number of things would happen in Bangladesh. First, floods would increase both in magnitude as well as duration. Drought would be more prolonged and more pronounced. There will be short duration rainfall that could cause drainage congestion in the affected area like urban areas. There could be untimely rainfall and if it is at a time when it is not expected, crops could be damaged. And the other thing that would happen is it may not rain when it is expected."
Sirajganj - 12 September, 2007
5. Wide of flooded houses
6. Children playing in floodwaters
7. Flooded houses
8. Flooded front yard of house
9. Various of people wading through floodwater
10. Wide of flooded school building and houses
11. Various of family living on bamboo platform inside their flooded house
12. Various of flooded school
Sirajganj - 10 August, 2007
13. Various of people in temporary shanty camp for flood victims
14. Wide pan of displaced people lining up to receive food aid
Southkhali, Bagerhat - 22 November, 2007
15. Military officers distributing rice to cyclone victims
Dhaka - 01 December, 2007
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ainun Nishat, Country Director, World Conservation Union:
"Standing crops are being damaged by flood; are being damaged by drought; are being damaged by the heavy rainfall accompanying the storm surge and the cyclone and the saline water that have come in with storm surge. So this is one aspect, so the farmers have planted their crops but their production level will be lower. This is right now. The second aspect is a slow thing. As the temperature goes up, as the temperature, the average temperature goes up 3 degrees 4 degrees maybe in 100 years time. By that time, the rice production will be lowered by one third, 30 per cent plus."
Southkhali, Bagerhat - 22 November, 2007
17. Various of military officers distributing rice to cyclone victims
Dhaka - 01 December, 2007
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Mozharul Alam, Research fellow on climate change at Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies:
"Our agriculture is more in the nature of subsistence. Now our government may provide or import the food, but unless our people have the buying capacity the availability of the food at market will not have any meaning for the people who will be the most vulnerable."
Southkhali, Bagerhat - 22 November, 2007
19. Wide of cyclone destruction near river bank - displaced people in background
20. Woman holding child standing in queue for aid
STORYLINE
Damage from the cyclone that recently scythed through coastal areas of Bangladesh was at the top of the agenda as world leaders met in Bali to discuss the global ramifications of climate change.
Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh on the night of November 15, claiming at least 3000 lives and leaving thousands more homeless.
The cyclone was the latest in a series of natural disasters to hit Bangladesh - including two massive floods in August and September of this year.
The country's government and foreign aid agencies are struggling to deal with the humanitarian disaster in the region - as the government predicted the floods and cyclone will cause serious food shortages.
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