News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The NGO Friendship and IFGR have combined to share their knowledge on expertise relating to rivers and deltas to organise together a study trip for IFGR’s members to Bangladesh in October 2023. This study trip will allow the members of IFGR to better understand the global context of the River Brahmaputra and the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta […]

“We have to act on the entire ecosystem if we want to stop systemic crises continuing to occur” Gathered together in the Strategic Partners Committee of the “One sustainable Health Forum”, the international associations Friendship[1] and IFGR share the same ambition of achieving more harmonious relations between human beings and their environment. This ambition first focuses […]

In Bangladesh, a country that has hundreds of increasingly polluted rivers, an unprecedented legal decision was taken at the beginning of July. The Supreme Court granted rights to all the country’s rivers as living beings, and gave them a legal character to better protect them. An essential step for the rights of nature The Court […]

Interview with Mohammad Mozammel Haque, President of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) and member of IFGR   Mohammad Mozammel Haque is the President of the BIWTA, which is the authority responsible for controlling river transport in Bangladesh. He explains the challenges that rivers face in this country, one of the most vulnerable to […]

Although climate change is a global reality, its effects are not uniform for all the regions of the world or for the same type of environment. This has been revealed by a huge international study published in the journal Nature. Performed in the Himalaya-Hindu Kush mountain ranges and the Tibetan Plateau  – the largest area […]

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