Environment
Environmental Group Nurses Sick Black Kite Back to Health
A Bogura environmental group rescued a sick black kite in Sonatala, nursed it back to health on a wildlife officer's advice and released it into the wild.
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Environment
Wildlife Roams Freely in Lawachara as Visitors Stay Away
With visits to Lawachara National Park suspended because of Covid, locals and officials say gibbons, deer, monkeys and langurs are now seen freely and their numbers have grown.
VideoA Returnee's Surprising Rooftop Farm in Kalabagan
After yard farming in Germany, Syed Abdul Quaium Khasru has built a multi-purpose rooftop farm in Kalabagan, Dhaka, including an automated aquaponics system.
Environment
Tree Planting and Eid Gifts to Mark Mujib Year
A council of third-class employees of non-government educational institutions planted trees, handed out Eid gifts and set out its demands at Donia University College in Dhaka to mark Mujib Year and the golden jubilee of independence.
Livestock
Teacher Biplob's Pigeon Hobby
Kaliganj schoolteacher Md Biplob Hossain, who began keeping pigeons as a schoolboy, now keeps about 100 pairs of some 10 breeds on his rooftop and urges unemployed young people to take up pigeon rearing.
Environment
Plan to Plant 10 Lakh Palm Trees to Reduce Lightning Deaths
The government has undertaken to plant 10 lakh palm trees across Bangladesh to reduce lightning deaths, speakers told a webinar, while stressing that public awareness matters most.
Environment
28 Zoo-Hatched Python Babies Released
Twenty-eight python hatchlings born by artificial incubation at Chattogram Zoo have been released at the Sitakunda Botanical Garden and Eco-park.
VideoSpirulina Now Grown in Backyard Tanks
An entrepreneur in Rajshahi is growing nutritious spirulina in tanks in his yard, though experts say more research is needed on how sustainable such farming is.
VideoIndustrialist Zaber's Biofloc Fish Farm
Shykh Seraj reports on young industrialist Abdullah Zaber's biofloc fish farm, built inside his industrial complex to supply fish to the Noman Group's 70,000 workers.
VideoHasanuzzaman Talukder Farms His Roof for Peace of Mind
In Bashundhara, retired government official Hasanuzzaman Talukder's 2,700 sq ft rooftop farm supplies almost all the vegetables for his two-person household.
Environment
Army Chief Launches Nationwide Tree-Planting Programme
Army chief General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed has launched the Bangladesh Army's tree-planting drive 2021, under which about two lakh trees will be planted in cantonments and army projects by 15 August.
Agribusiness
Police Rescue 13-Inch Tokay Gecko 'Worth Tk 100 Crore' in Faridpur
Police in Faridpur's Alfadanga rescued a tokay gecko, rumoured locally to be worth Tk 100 crore, while it was being sold, and released it into the forest.
VideoTwo Brothers' Rooftop Farm on a House Still Under Construction
In Ashulia, Savar, brothers Sajib and Rajib have covered the roof of their house under construction with a hundred kinds of fruit and a collection of rare plants.
Agribusiness
Feroz-Sufi Couple Succeed With Chinese Chicken Farm Started as a Hobby
A Bangladeshi trader and his Chinese wife, who hatched 84 chicks from eggs brought from China, now keep more than 3,500 Chinese chickens and are crossing them with local birds.
Environment
Three Tree Lovers Set an Example in Greening Narail
Three tree lovers in Narail have spent 13 years planting and caring for native fruit and flowering trees along the town's roads with their own money and labour.
Environment
Nilgai Dies of Panic in Ranisankail, Thakurgaon
A nilgai died in Thakurgaon's Ranisankail upazila after villagers tried to catch it, and officials suspect it suffered a stroke from fear.
Environment
Two Pythons Rescued From Villages, Released in Sundarbans
The forest department rescued two pythons, 10 and 17 feet long, from villages near the Sundarbans' Sarankhola range and released them into the forest.
Environment
Rare Slow Loris Rescued in Rangamati
An injured baby slow loris, a rare species, was rescued from bushes beside the Rangamati Betar building and handed to the Forest Department.
Environment
10 Venomous Snake Hatchlings Found Under a Bed in Jashore
Ten venomous snake hatchlings were recovered from a hole under a bed in Sajjak Hossain's house in Jhikargachha, Jashore.
Rooftop farming
Rooftop Gardens to Earn 10 Percent Holding Tax Waiver: Mayor Atiq
Dhaka North City Corporation will waive 10 percent of holding tax for buildings with rooftop gardens, Mayor Atiqul Islam announced.