A New Perspective

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, protected areas and other forms of wilderness areas (e.g., arboretums, beaches, parks, marine monuments) have been closed worldwide. Your challenge is to lead the effort to examine any potential impacts of reduced human traffic in such local protected natural environments.

Something is better than nothing.

Summary

Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest and Cox’s Bazar is the longest sea beach. These locations are full of natural beauty , purity ,large biodiversity and roaming place of wildlives and sea animals. Millions of people depends on them and they play a vital role in our economy .These places remains crowded all the time .Due to the pandemic of COVID-19 human traffic has reduced and nature can take breath in peace .Our target is to pick the positive and negative impacts.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our challenge is to lead the efforts to examine any to potential impacts of reduce any human traffic in protected areas and other forms of wilderness areas due to COVID-19 pandemic.  Wilderness means an area or region which is not used for human activities or we can say uncultivated lands. That’s why I think The Sundarbans is a wilderness. But according to the definition of protected area, both the Sundarbans and the Cox's Bazar is protected area. The Sundarbans is east wildlife sanctuary and the Cox’s Bazar is a Marine Protected Area(MPA).Of all the different environments of Bangladesh, these two places has the highest level of biodiversity. That’s why we have picked these two regions to examine the impacts.

How We Developed This Project


The locations which are the source of beauty , purity and our recreation are left alone  as the pandemic spreads all over the world .It is our responsibility to be concerned about those divine places .Care and responsibility about those areas inspire us to choose this challenge .We have selected such two places which play a vital role in our economy, natural beauty and resources. We have tried to collect information from the given agency (NASA, ESA, JAXA, CNES, CSA ASC), google, some online journals and documents. We have collected provided tools and satellite images from space agency and  used them psychologically and scientifically. We have used meteomatics tool . For this COVID-19 pandemic situation the whole country is under lockdown. It was not possible for us to collect data directly from root level. So we need to depend on space agency data, google and online portals fully.

 

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#A_new_perspective #meteomatics #The_Sundarbans #The_Coxs'Bazar
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.