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.
Finally, the forest department employees who safeguard the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans, have been brought under risk allowance. The financial benefit will be equivalent of the 30 percent of their basic salaries.
Wildlife team of forest department rescues two pythons from two separate areas in Bagerhat and frees them to the Sundarbans.
The forest department rescue more than 4,000 birds of different species from a depot in Kachua upazila of Bagerhat today.
Fourth fire incident in barely four weeks’ time at Chandpai Range in Sundarbans prompts Forest Department to put in place a number of special security measures there.
The Forest Department suspends its three employees for their negligence in duties over the recent fire incidents in the Sundarbans in Sharankhola upazila.
A few gangs are plundering trees from the reserve forest at Gangamati near Kuakata of Patuakhali.
The High Court upholds a lower court verdict that jailed former chief conservator of forest (CCF) Osman Gani for 12 years for amassing wealth illegally and concealing information in his wealth statement submitted to the ACC.
Around 100 turtles seized by the members of Rapid Action Battalion and the officials of Bangladesh Forest Department in Shakhari Bazar of Old Dhaka.
The forest department has issued a special alert in the Sundarbans following killing of six ‘tiger poachers’ in a ‘gunfight’ with police and recovery of three tiger skins from the world’s largest mangrove earlier this month.
