Most snakes in Bangladesh are harmless and shy, myths fuel needless killing, and killing one is punishable by up to seven years in jail and a Tk 10 lakh fine.
Instalments and interest on NGO loans taken by small women entrepreneurs hit by the Bandarban floods have been waived for one month, State Minister Mir Helal Uddin said.
VegetablesHeavy rain in early July 2026 caused an officially estimated Tk 13 crore of farm, fisheries and livestock losses in Sitakunda, Chattogram; those affected put the figure at Tk 30-35 crore, and vegetable prices rose by Tk 10-15 a kg.
Though the Sundarbans tiger count has risen to 125, climate change, salinity and habitat loss threaten the Royal Bengal tiger unless conservation is stepped up.
CropsContinuous rain in July 2026 flooded 417 hectares of vegetables, jute and Aman seedbeds in Bogura, affecting 4,961 farmers, while most vegetable prices in the town's markets rose within a week.
Floods in five districts of the Chattogram region caused fisheries and livestock losses of about Tk 275 crore, the minister said, announcing seed, vaccination and fodder support.
A year after the Milestone tragedy, students planted memorial trees for lost classmates and took part in art therapy, counselling and football at a resort in Pubail, Gazipur.
Speaking at the Dhaka Reporters Unity's native seasonal fruit festival, the Prime Minister's adviser Mahdi Amin said journalists had led every democratic movement.
A physically disabled farmer in Shailkupa, Jhenaidah, faces losses of several lakh taka after miscreants cut down his fruiting bottle gourd plants at night.
The Border Guard Bangladesh chief opened a week-long tree planting programme at Pilkhana and said 73,000 trees would be planted across the country this year.
A joint drive in Kamalganj recovered about 5 acres of reserved forest that local influential people had turned into malta, pineapple, lemon and betel nut gardens.
FisheriesOn 15 July 2026 a python about 8 feet long and weighing 11 kg was caught in fishermen's net in Kalmakanda, Netrokona; the next day the Forest Department rescued it and released it in the Kanthalbari forest near the Lengura border.
A Tree Monitoring App will soon be launched to track the location, care and survival of every sapling planted under the government's 250 million tree programme.
At Dhaka's Karwan Bazar, jamun is pressed into juice that goes to processors and exporters, while the once-discarded seeds now sell as powder.
Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman opened the army's 2026 tree plantation campaign, under which 11 lakh 36 thousand trees will be planted.
The Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation rescued a python from a house in Sreemangal where ducks and chickens had been disappearing.
The country's only commercial snake venom farm could produce Tk 8 crore of venom a month, but drug companies have shown no interest in processing it.
DAE's three tissue culture labs produced 212,387 disease-free seedlings in a year, cutting costs for farmers and reducing dependence on imported plants.
EnvironmentOn 15 July 2026 a faction of Jagannath University Chhatra Dal distributed awareness leaflets on campus under the slogan "Green campus, healthy environment, bright future", urging students to help make the university greener.
CropsIn mid-July 2026, Jagonews24 set out why the Asharh-Shraban monsoon is the best time to plant saplings in Bangladesh, while the national tree plantation campaign and tree fairs were under way across the country.
