Abstract
Satellite remote sensing technique has been used to assess the vegetation cover changes experienced by areas severely affected by Rohingya refugees in Teknaf peninsula of Bangladesh which is bordering Myanmar. Since 25 August, 2017, approximately 655,000 refugees settled in Bangladesh as of 11 December 2017. Majority of them are settled in the sub-districts of Teknaf and Ukhiya. Teknaf peninsula is an ecologically critical area. It includes the protected Teknaf Wildlife Sanctuary, one of the oldest reserved forests in Bangladesh. This vegetation at the southern coast of Bangladesh plays a vital role in the climate change adaptation and mitigation process in the region. Refugee camps and their practice of cutting trees to use as firewood for cooking cause significant deforestation. This study shows a major loss of vegetation cover following the refugee influx. The analysis of the remote sensed images provides quantitative data on the adverse impact of the refugee crisis on the natural resources and the ecosystem of the host community.
Highlights
Introduction over1 million, and increases continuously (UNB, 2017).The majority of people are settled in Teknaf and UkhiyaImpact of refugee crisis on the environment and natural sub-districts of Cox’s Bazar, a district bordering resource of the host community has become an emerging Myanmar identified as the main entry area for border issue in refugee research
Since Landsat-8 images were used in this study, band 5 was taken as Near Infrared (NIR) and band 4 was taken as Red
Recommendations The findings suggest the following: 1) NGOs and GOs should be assigned at the refugee settlement areas only for taking care of the deforestation issues
Summary
Introduction over1 million, and increases continuously (UNB, 2017).The majority of people are settled in Teknaf and UkhiyaImpact of refugee crisis on the environment and natural sub-districts of Cox’s Bazar, a district bordering resource of the host community has become an emerging Myanmar identified as the main entry area for border issue in refugee research. Teknaf peninsula is an built near environmentally sensitive areas like national ecologically critical area. It includes the protected Teknaf parks, reserve forests reserves, or agriculturally marginal Wildlife Sanctuary, one of the oldest reserved forests in areas (Shepherd, 1995). Refugees often stay in their host Bangladesh (IUCN, 2011). This vegetation plays a vital countries for long periods of time, having a prolonged role in the region's climate change adaptation and impact on the environment (Shepherd, 1995). Movement of thousands of people and August 2017, massive violence broke out in Rakhine the establishment of refugee camps can have a serious
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