Robert Templer: The Rohingya refugee crisis is taking its toll on Bangladesh's poorest

Environmental damage and economic strain add to an already precarious situation on both sides of the border

Refugees can cause environmental concerns in neighboring countries in addition to being economic and political problems.

January 18, 2018 10:00 JST

From any vantage point in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, a landscape of human misery stretches to the horizon. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are now packed into bamboo and plastic shacks in one of the world's largest refugee camps -- there are more than 65 countries with a smaller population than this makeshift settlement.