Tree Fair Returns to Dhaka After Two Years, Indoor and Fruit Plants in Demand
Back after a two-year pandemic break, Dhaka's tree fair at Agargaon is drawing crowds, with fruit trees and indoor plants selling best.
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Back after a two-year pandemic break, Dhaka's tree fair at Agargaon is drawing crowds, with fruit trees and indoor plants selling best.
The Coast Guard has seized three deer skins from an abandoned school bag in Patharghata, Barguna, but the smugglers fled.
A 17-year-old Siberian tiger has given birth to four cubs at a breeding centre in north-eastern China.
Pigeon chicks hatch on the 19th day after the first egg is laid, and careful attention in the first days keeps them alive and growing.
Researchers from Japan's Hokkaido University have identified a fossil found in Hokkaido as a new dinosaur species with claws like sharp knives.
The 31st BCS Cadre Association held a tree-planting programme at Dhaka College as part of nationwide planting at educational institutions for World Environment Day.
Presenting the 2022-23 budget, the finance minister said 106 endangered forest and 240 medicinal tree species had been conserved over 13 years.
The Forest Department rescued a fishing cat that had entered a farmer's cowshed in Patharghata, Barguna, and released it in the Haringhata forest.
Rownaf Jahan, a 65-year-old farmer in Paba, Rajshahi, has planted a high-yielding local papaya on 15 katha and expects to sell Tk 1.5 lakh worth of fruit.
Bonayan, the largest private-sector tree-planting programme, has begun distributing 5 million saplings as it enters its 42nd year.
Trees keep the air clean, help bring rain, hold the soil and shelter wildlife, so everyone should plant them each season, the article argues.
A civet of a near-extinct species was caught in a residential area of Ishwarganj, Mymensingh, and rescued by the Forest Department.
The Forest Department recovered a wild elephant's carcass on the Jhenaigati border in Sherpur, with the cause of death still unknown.