Mr. Khondaker Hasibul Kabir, lecturer, ARC, BU, participated in a weeklong (June 16-22, 2005) workshop on Sustainable Solutions for the Management of Urban Wetlands--Urban wetlands need preservation and restoration in order to help control local flooding and put a stop to the rapidly deteriorating ecology of the area due to industrial waste disposal, encroachment and land grabbing by developers and squatters. The focus of the workshop was Begunbari Khal of Dhaka city. Hasibul Kabir made a presentation on Ecological landscape style: Planting design in the floodplains of Bangladesh.