News of onslaught on forests raises fresh concerns
The relentless deforestation happening across Bangladesh persists unchecked
Safeguarding nature should be our priority
Government must not allow anyone to occupy or destroy forestland
Worrying reports about natural degradation question the government’s sincerity
There was a time when coconut, palm, tamarisk, and mangrove trees swayed with the winds on Kuakata Beach. Their tall trunks guarded the shore-dwellers against the wrath of natural calamities.
Chattogram district administration must answer for felling 5,000 trees
Why are we destroying our last line of defence against natural calamities?
Forest department officials have shown dead exotic birds of an aviary in Chattogram as alive in documents allegedly for six years embezzling the money meant for bird feed.
For years, under the nose of the Forest Department and the local administration, a syndicate led by a local union parishad chairman has been razing hillocks and tearing down trees at Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram’s Lohagara upazila.
The Forest Department has started setting up a total of 1,330 cameras at 665 spots in the Sundarbans to count tigers, deer and pigs.
Lobbing Sumer (40) is the head of a six-member family at Doluchhara punjee in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila. During the last 13 years serving as the Khasi punjee (indigenous village) chief, he had to manage the expenses of seven cases filed by the forest department against the members of their community.
Plans to build a prison on forestland show that the country is in environmental free-fall
The move to build a prison on forestland is both illegal and impractical
The forest department has reforested a total of 400 acres of protected forestland -- which was grabbed by locals in Kodolpur area of Chattogram’s Raozan upazila -- bringing a positive change for the region’s biodiversity.
An elephant calf which got trapped in a muddy swamp has been rescued by locals in collaboration with forest officials after 16 hours.
Forest Department has cancelled the Eid holiday of its staff, including the officials and rangers, working in the Sundarbans.
Miscreants destroy around 10,000 saplings belonging to the forest department at Moheskhali range of Coastal Forest Department.
Felling of trees by “influential people” is damaging the biodiversity of Bhola's Manpura Island, making it prone to natural disasters.
