May 2023
In the May issue of Geographical, we look at the challenges Luiz Inácio da Silva faces on his return to power, as he attempts to mitigate the destruction that has taken place in the Amazon during the last few years. Under Jair Bolsonaro’s leadership, the world’s largest rainforest has faced some of the worst setbacks in its history, as environmental laws were rolled back and deforestation reached record highs. The damage done will be hard to overcome, but the mood is tentatively upbeat, as Mark Rowe discovers as he speaks to conservationists and forestry experts.
Gabriele Cecconi visits the vast, sprawling and underfunded refugee camps in Bangladesh, where he discovered the desperate situation of the Rohingya people who have fled from their homes in Myanmar. In 2017, as many as 700,000 Rohingya are thought to have escaped what the UN has defined as a genocide. Meanwhile, Stuart Butler goes on the hunt for answers after hearing tales of a strange creature living up in the frozen Himalaya, Bryony Cottam meets the makers of some of the world’s last handcrafted globes, and Geordie Torr discovers a new initiative to support conservation in Alabama, one of America’s poorest states. And don’t miss our regular Geo-graphic, which this month focuses on the women working global healthcare.
