Restaurants in Sunamganj's Tahirpur upazila sell the meat of migratory birds to tourists who pay extra, and locals say hunting has driven many birds away from Tanguar Haor.
A nilgai that villagers tried to slaughter in Thakurgaon's Baliadangi upazila is recovering under care at a Border Guard Bangladesh camp.
Thousands of migratory birds of about 50 species have arrived at the Baikka Beel sanctuary in Moulvibazar, but hunting around the wetland remains a threat.
A speech-impaired woman was killed and several houses were wrecked when a herd of wild elephants raided villages in Lama upazila of Bandarban.
A shimul tree beside the Kulik river in Thakurgaon's Keutan village draws hundreds of cormorants and many visitors each winter, though locals say hunting is reducing the birds.
Thousands of colourful migratory birds from colder countries have gathered on the beaches and chars of Rangabali in Patuakhali this winter.
Four Swiss albino mice given away at Rajshahi University turned lab assistant Salauddin Mamun into a supplier of research mice to universities and pharmaceutical labs.
Fewer migratory birds have arrived this winter at Tanguar Haor, the Ramsar-listed wetland in Sunamganj, and people living around it blame hunters.
Forest officials in Madaripur rescued an exhausted native vulture from a market lane and plan to send it to Khulna for release in the Sundarbans.
More than 7,000 migratory birds of 12 species came to Jahangirnagar University this winter, the highest in two decades, with few visitors on the closed campus.
With campus closed during the pandemic, a veterinary student from Gono Bishwabidyalay set up a quail farm in Narsingdi's Shibpur that now earns him about Tk 20,000 a month.
A giant dead dolphin with wounds on its body washed up on Kuakata beach, and officials suspect it was injured by fishermen or a deep-sea mother vessel.
Migratory birds that shelter in Satkhira every winter are being trapped and shot in beels across the district, with little enforcement of the wildlife law.
