Fading colours: Bangladesh's threatened rickshaw art

Bangladesh's bicycle rickshaw drivers have for decades used their transport as a unique moving canvas of urban folk art. But many fear that despite being added by the United Nations cultural agency this month to its list of intangible cultural heritage, the colorful craft is fading in the face of faster, modern motorized rickshaws.

Rickshaw mechanic Mohammad Sabuj says he is mourning the decline in the "beautiful" paintings, which adorn the vehicles' carriage covers, seats and footrests. "It has become rare nowadays," he said.