Roots of Resilience: The Women Preserving Asia’s Ancient Mangrove Forest

Straddling the border between India and Bangladesh, where the rivers Ganges, Meghna and Brahmaputra converge and flow into the Bay of Bengal, an ancient forest of mangroves stretches over 3,860 square miles. This labyrinth of misty saltwater channels, mudflats and marshy land known as the Sundarbans.