‘Forests: Nature at Your Service’: Letter’s from my “three years old Sister”

Dear the people of Earth

Friends, Bros & Sisters

My name is Tani; I am four. Just begin to go to school. This time, I send my most sincere and warmth greetings of World’s Environment Day to you from a tiny and beautiful village of Bangladesh.  

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It is now summer in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has a reputation of cozy weather-the gentle breeze, the awesome river, the deep- green and soul-touching forest and  Life bears a different meaning here.  Green has the power of healing. It gives rest to eyes. Touch our soul with deep passion and love for life. and the contribution of forest to human civilization needs no description. The civilization comes from forest. Forest was the shelter, breeding place, source of food for our ancestors.

Then one day suddenly, we learnt to produce brick, we learnt to become more modern, more civilized, more destructive, and crueler and we learnt to destroy ourselves mistakenly. Then like the much-unexpected cinema, we begin to prove our development. We continued with deforestation, carbon-emission and global-warming. We marginalized green-forest, wildlife, -then one day we find ourselves marginalized. Suddenly we discovered ourselves in the cage of brick, building and iron. 

Now things have changed a lot. Although, we are not solely responsible for deforestation, for global warming but we are paying the high price. You know that, Bangladesh is one of most vulnerable country against climate-change and global-warming. Every year we face natural disasters with unbelievable ferocity and destructiveness 

Because of deforestation, the intensity of natural calamity has increased largely. When I am writing this to you, my mind is full of sorrow and sadness. Our experience of natural disaster is beyond any description and human eyes can seldom tolerate the havoc. 

We have the most heart-breaking experience of disaster. In last “Cyclone SIDOR”, we lost our Grandpa and it destroyed our home, and all belongings. Still we missed him so much; still we find our eyes full of water when we remember the scene of destruction. My school has destroyed and still I can’t go to school. Every day I miss my school-friends most of whom also lost their everything and living in unthinkable sufferings under open sky. 

Unfortunately, number of people suffering from disasters is huge. As a child I can understand that, It is so terrible when children lost their fathers, their mothers, sisters, and cannot play with them or have fun, cannot go to school, cannot get parents love. When they live under open sky, when they find that, life is so hard and people around them so cruel and inconsiderate and seldom care about them. 

I am scared when I think that somewhere on Earth there are still people destroying forest, still producing carbon dioxide indiscriminately, still behaving like selfish and not considering the suffering of others that, somewhere small children, women and old men suffer from natural calamities! Unfortunately, not everyone thinks so. We are becoming habituated with destruction. The world becomes heartless desert, much grief and many tears appear in it. 

I always think over what each of us can do to create a beautiful world. I think we can make a difference. And we should take the responsibility by ourselves and we can better serve our mother-earth, we can again start afforesting, we can make people conscious about planting trees and this 5^th of June-this Environment day can be a start-up step. We know a thousand miles of journey begins with a tiny first steps.   

Now let us begin our better dream of “Beautiful-World” to come true. Only we can make this happen. Just plant a tree in this Environment day.  Happy Environment day to you!!!

Your Younger Sister

“TANI” from Bangladesh

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