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In conflict, one of the silent and forgotten casualties is often the environment. From habitat obliteration to the contamination of soils with chemicals, and the collapse of water and food supplies, war has devastating consequences.
Not only man-made infrastructures, but also ecosystems, are destroyed. And animal lives are lost as well as human. But even amidst the most vicious struggles there are people fighting to protect the world we live in and recover what was lost. In August 2017, a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing began in Myanmar.
In just one month the military and extremists combined to claim the lives of 7000 Rohingya people. The violent regime forced them out of the country and into the forests over the border. Now there are 1.2 million refugees living in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh.
When they arrived, they were unaware that the forest in which they took shelter was already occupied – by endangered elephants. Shortly after they settled here elephants began to charge through the camp, killing 13 people over several months. earthrise travels to Kutupalong Camp in Bangladesh to find out how the Rohingya are learning to live with their new neighbours and are saving lives, both human and elephant, in the process. In Lebanon we visit the ICARDA seedbank where seeds saved from a bank in Aleppo, Syria are helping scientists to develop new pest and weather resistant crops. Crop diversity, which is so essential for food security, has declined by three quarters since the 1900s. The world’s insurance policy is a network of 1750 seed banks which safeguard plant biodiversity and can be turned to in times of crisis. But conflict can make even the seed banks themselves vulnerable. We meet a remarkable team who have fled the horrors of the Syrian war, and are rebuilding the ICARDA seedbank in the heart of the fertile crescent where agriculture began.