Ten units from Fire Service with the Forest Department are actively working to put out the fire
A fire broke out in the Sundarbans early yesterday but no water could be sprayed on the blaze even after 12 hours due to the lack of a nearby water source.
The programme, held today at the mangrove forest of Mongla Government College, called for an immediate ban on the use of poison in rivers and canals, an end to deer poaching, and the cancellation of all forest-destroying projects
Despite being declared a protected area in 1920, the Patharia Hills Reserve Forest in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar has never been surveyed, leading to multiple disputes and numerous instances of encroachment.
To harness the untapped potential of ecotourism in the region, the Borshijora Ecopark was set up in 2006 across a vast expanse of natural reserve forest in Moulvibazar Sadar upazila.
After a two-month hiatus during the breeding season of crabs, fishermen set sail once more in various rivers and canals of the Sundarbans to resume their crab catching activities.
The Forests Department recovered around 25 acres of forest land grabbed by an industrial group in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram, yesterday.
In the letter sent to the director general of Bangladesh Railway, the railway ministry asked for necessary measures to be taken to keep the speed limit of all trains running on this route below 20kmph to prevent the death of wildlife on the railway line on Lawachahra National Park and to ensure they can cross easily
At first glance, it looks like a branch of kelp, but then an eye moves among its leafy appendages, and ridges of tiny, translucent fins start to flutter, sending the creature gliding through the water like something from a fairy tale.
Juliet, the female crocodile of Karamjol Wildlife Rescue Center of Sundarban, lays 34 eggs.
All 32 eggs of Batagur baska, a critically endangered northern river terrapin, have hatched at Karamjal wildlife breeding centre in the Sundarbans in Bagerhat.
Humanity is rapidly destroying the natural world upon which our prosperity -- and ultimately our survival -- depends, according to a landmark UN assessment of the state of Nature.
The world's fattest parrot, the critically endangered kakapo, has enjoyed a record-breaking breeding season, New Zealand scientists say, with climate change possibly aiding the species' unique mating spree.
A wild elephant has been found dead in Bandarban after it drowned in a lake, a forest official says.
The only known female member of one of the world's rarest turtle species has died at a zoo in southern China, officials said Sunday.
The female snake is longer than a one-story building is high, and weighs 140 pounds (64 kilograms).
Experts have stressed the need for strengthening regional cooperation to protect vultures from extinction in South Asia.
The fate of an endangered aquatic frog species may just rest on this love story.
