Illegal sand mining is ruining these countries’ ecosystems
This is a 30 minutes video report by Vice News which reports on the sand mining taking place in Bangladesh’s rivers. This river mining for sand is taking place on a massive scale, much of it being conducted illegally. It is having a profound ecological impact on the country’s rivers. Whilst the sand is being used as an essential component of concrete and aiding Bangladesh’s own economic development, a substantial but unrecorded amount is being exported to other Asian countries and, in particular, Singapore to provide for land reclamation and that country’s economic development.
Original source of this item: Kiran Pereira’s SandStories Newsletter, September 2021 www.SandStories.org