Boats on rivers, people wading in for a living, birds feeding in green wetlands: 170 such photographs make up "Rivers and Birds", an exhibition that opened on Saturday at the Nalinikanta Bhattashali Gallery of the Bangladesh National Museum. Organised by the environmental platform Dhoritri Rokkhay Amra (DHORA) to raise awareness of conserving rivers, birds and biodiversity, the four-day show is open to the public until 6 October.
It brings together river and nature pictures by photographer and photography teacher Abir Abdullah and bird and wildlife pictures by wildlife photographer Ansar Uddin Khan Pathan, showing how closely birds and wildlife depend on rivers and wetlands.
Opening it, Sheikh Faridul Islam, state minister for environment, forest and climate change, said protecting rivers, birds and nature is everyone's duty, not only the government's. He urged visitors not to stop at admiring the pictures but to act against river grabbing, pollution and plastic use.
Ornithologist Enam Ul Haque said photographing a river teaches a photographer to know its life deeply, and the same is true of birds. Ansar Uddin Khan Pathan said rivers, wetlands and birds are bound together, so protecting birds means protecting their habitat too.
DHORA member secretary Sharif Jamil said the aim was to stir people's affection for nature. Dr Mujibur Rahman Howlader, former chairman of the National River Conservation Commission, said photographers should also record the destruction of rivers and biodiversity, not only their beauty.
The report is from Samakal.
Photo: Faisal Akram / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Source: Samakal
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