Produced and published by the Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD), The Chittagong Hill Tract: Life and Nature at Risk presents information, analysis and photographic evidence about how the land, life and nature in the Chittagong Hill Tracts are at risk. Incidents throughout the past half-century have changed the CHT to such a great extent that it no longer remains in its original shape. It is man who has caused enormous damage to this beautiful region. SEHD publishes this book also to enhance understanding about the CHT’s unique legal and administrative system that has no parallel in other parts of Bangladesh; agony and anger of the hill people as they fail to establish their self-rule and control over local resources; hill women’s vulnerability and sufferings; and dislocation, disruption and destruction of life and nature in the name of ‘development’.