What is the relationship between climate change and criminal predation? Bangladesh's Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, has, over the past decade, emerged as a climate frontier. It is a space viewed not only as a climate hot spot but also as a zone where control and opportunity emerge out of friction between long-standing political economies, new conservation interventions, and the materialities of the mangrove forest. Concomitantly, those who work in the Sundarbans have reported a dramatic increase in banditry and kidnapping. This article proposes the concept of an “ecology of capture” to chart the articulations between such kidnappings and other attempts to control rents, resources, and territory. Seen through the lens of capture, the Sundarbans highlights how the global rush to secure climate hot spots against degradation and displacement produces new configurations of expropriation and exploitation. [climate change, piracy, capture, conservation, Sundarbans, Bangladesh]

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孟加拉国孙德尔本斯的捕捞生态

气候变化与犯罪掠夺之间有什么关系？孟加拉国的孙德尔本斯是世界上最大的红树林，在过去十年中，它已成为气候前沿。这个空间不仅被视为气候热点，而且被视为一个控制和机会因长期政治经济、新的保护干预措施和红树林物质之间的摩擦而出现的区域。与此同时，在孙德尔本斯工作的人报告说，土匪和绑架事件急剧增加。本文提出了“捕获生态”的概念，以描绘此类绑架与其他控制租金、资源和领土的企图之间的联系。通过捕捉镜头看到，Sundarbans 强调了全球急于确保气候热点免受退化和迁移如何产生新的征用和开发配置。[气候变化，海盗，捕获，保护，红树林湿地，孟加拉国]