International Year of Biodiversity is an opportunity for all the world to recognize the importance of biodiversity for all life on Earth, to reflect on our a achievements to safeguard biodiversity and focus on the urgency of our challenge for the future. Now is the time to act. This year’s theme was meaning full [...]
The small country of Bangladesh doesn’t have much of a reputation as a bike touring destination but Muntasir Mamun Imran would like to change that.
A Bangladeshi himself, he’s spent many weeks touring the country.
Bangladesh, he says, offers wonderful hospitality, beautiful scenery and quiet roads for cyclists. It is also an overcrowded country, [...]
By Ken Ford
Every year a group folks I know organize what they call the Hillary Ride. The ride pays tribute to Sir Edmond Hillary who died at the age of 88. So each year around this time they go out a cycle 88+ km. This year we cycled 150 km.
The trip started by meeting up [...]
By | Muntasir Mamun Imran, Country Coordinator, International Coastal Cleanup, The Ocean Conservancy
Whale! Whale!! Whale? In Bangladesh? No way!! No one can even imagine the existence of whale in Bay of Bengal is a small corridor of the mighty Indian Ocean, but due to the favorable geographical location it’s not impossible to find whales and [...]
Month of February is the nesting season for the sea turtles of Bangladesh. But like many years it remains the same as many turtles are dying on the shore while nesting or laying their eggs. Nearly 60 dead turtles have found along single stretch of beach of only 40 kilometers of the coast of Cox’s [...]
Perhaps everyone around us know the name of Mt Everest, the highest mountain on earth, the majestic symbol of courage for mankind. The 29th May, 1953 is perhaps the most significant day for mountaineering with the conquest of the Everest. Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay successfully scaled the summit of the crown of all [...]
Himalaya. The name itself explains lot about this colossus mountain range of the planet. All the madness, the exhilaration, the excitement and most importantly the spiritual fact; the name Himalaya puts these all in plain words. Home to some of the world’s most infamous mountains plus the highest peak of the world-Everest; Himalaya dwarfs all [...]
CIGARETTE butts, poly bags don’t fall from sky, they fall from our hands. The elements that pollute our beaches are the things that we dump in the shorelines; these elements are the things we use regularly. Each year, Ocean Conservancy — in partnership with a network of volunteer organizations and individuals — provides a compelling [...]
Mountaineering is a new phenomenon in Bangladesh. At 2007, we are still in its infancy. The good thing is that over time, the idea of mountaineering has gained ground. In 2003 on the fiftieth anniversary of the conquest of Mt. Everest, Bangladesh cheered along with the world. At that time there was great jubilation among [...]
Yes, mostly it was ardency for an adventure in our way. Not so hard but yet to accomplish many. And when it’s Bhutan it was combustions of energy with the sheer strength of mind. Moreover, Bhutan was the first nation to recognize our independence before any other state in the world. So for us our [...]
