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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig |
In the
middle of January 2015, my Mum got in touch with Mr Samad Ahmed Chowdhury, the
Chair of Channel S UK, a Bangladeshi satellite TV station based in East London (the heart of the British Bangladeshi
community). The channel is the most watched
Bengali satellite TV station in Europe . Mr Chowdhury is an uncle of my mum’s and my
Nana. He was amazing about the story, as
although he knew that his audience would not be that interested in the
environmental disaster in the Sundarbans, he was prepared to give it a go on
the basis that it could be sold as a humanitarian disaster (which it was for
the people living there).
My Mum’s family
are from Sylhet, North East Bangladesh where more of Britain
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| Chris Craig, Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig, Helena Craig and Ayesha Ahmed-Mendoza Photograph taken by Alex Price and copyright Helena Craig |
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| Chris Craig, Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig, Ayesha Ahmed-Mendoza and Laila Price Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig |
The channel had looked at my blog
and was interested in the fact that I had seen so many birds around the world, had
become the youngest to see 3000 birds and also the work I had done to publicise
the Sundarbans oil spill and help raise money for the American charity Water
Defense to go out there are clean up the oil spill.
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig |
A week
later, Tanvir Ahmed, their main reporter came to interview me with a cameraman at
Chew Valley Lake
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| Child collecting oil in Sundarbans, Bangladesh |
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| Spoon-billed Sandpiper Sonadia Island, Bangladesh Photograph taken by and copyright Bangladesh Spoon-billed Sandpiper Conservation Project |
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig with Tanvir Ahmed and crew Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig |
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig with Tanvir Ahmed and crew Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig |
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig with Tanvir Ahmed and crew Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig |
Also, they talked to my Mum about why she thought other
Bangladeshi girls were not interacting with nature. There are the usual problems encountered by
all children across the cultural divide, but on top of that, lots of Bangladeshi
teenage girls are not allowed out on their own and their parents do not think
it important to take them into nature even parks. This is such a shame are most of those same
parents, growing up in Bangladesh ,
would have been surrounded by nature growing up in rural Bangladesh
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig with Tanvir Ahmed and crew Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig |
My interview
was shown on Channel S UK on Wednesday 11th February 2015 on the 10
pm News and then repeated again on the 1 am News. It was then shown again on Friday 13th
February 2015 on Ekattor TV in Bangladesh Bangladesh http://on.fb.me/1E1kBcZ
A few days later I was spotted by a girl in a parlour (beauty salon) who recognised me from Ekattor TV News, which was a bit of a funny co-incidence.
A few days later I was spotted by a girl in a parlour (beauty salon) who recognised me from Ekattor TV News, which was a bit of a funny co-incidence.
Unfortunately, the section about the Sundarbans oil spill was cut back, probably because Water Defense had not started their clean up operation, even though they had raised the money they needed more than a month before.
Channel S are planning to show a longer programme about my visit to
About the writer
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig on Scilly Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig |
Mya-Rose Craig is a 12 year old young birder,
conservationist, writer and speaker.
She is based near Bristol
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