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There is a particular kind of loss that does not announce itself. It does not make the news. It comes the way salt comes, slowly, invisibly, carried by water that looks like ordinary water until the day you realize nothing grows in it anymore. Until the day you reach for something that used to be there and find only the absence of it. This is the story of Bangladesh's coastal mangrove forests. And it is, at the same time, the story of the women who lived inside them. What the

Picture an unbroken verdant belt coming from the Alborz Mountains and running down to the Caspian Sea. It is a place full of images of moss-covered old beech trees with whispers of streams and trees that anciently hibernate. It is the Hyrcanian Forest - an ancient and one of the most broadleaf temperate forests that exists as a true natural treasure. Why it’s called “Hyrcanian” The name comes from Hyrcania, an ancient region south of the Caspian Sea known to classical geogr