The Bangladesh Army's Dighinala zone distributed 26,000 fruit and timber saplings in one day in Khagrachhari, and gave saplings and dry food to students of a madrasa and orphanage.
EnvironmentOpening the Bangladesh Army Tree Plantation Campaign-2026 on 16 July 2026, army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman said 11 lakh 36 thousand trees would be planted in cantonments and Jolshiri by the last week of September.
General Waker-Uz-Zaman has opened the Bangladesh Army's 2025 tree-planting campaign, which will run in all cantonments, DOHS areas and Jolshiri until September.
LivestockAhead of Eid-ul-Azha 2025, the Bangladesh Army arrested five people at Kamarpara in Uttara on allegations of extortion around a cattle market and four at the Abdullahpur bus stand on allegations of overcharging fares.
An army team at Jonail cattle market in Baraigram, Natore, found lessees charging extra hasil and had the excess returned to more than 500 buyers.
Four fishermen were jailed and about 150 kg of hilsa seized in a joint drive on the Payra river in Patuakhali during the hilsa ban.
Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman inaugurated the ASEAN Dhaka Committee's tree-planting programme at Kurmitola Golf Club, with ASEAN envoys in attendance.
Army members seized more than a tonne of hilsa being smuggled to India through Kasba in Brahmanbaria on 23 September and detained one man.
The army chief planted a bakul sapling in Dhaka Cantonment on 9 June to launch the Bangladesh Army's 2024 tree planting campaign.
Bangladesh Army chief General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed opened the army's 2023 tree plantation drive by planting a bakul sapling at Dhaka Cantonment.
Army Chief General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed has launched the Bangladesh Army's 2022 tree-planting campaign, which aims to plant about 250,000 saplings.
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.
