A crocodile seized crab fisherman Subrata Mondal as he swam across the Karamjal canal in the Sundarbans, and the Forest Department, his family and villagers searched for his body.
The Coast Guard held eight people with deer meat and crabs at Harbaria in the Sundarbans during the forest's seasonal harvest ban.
EnvironmentAt a World Tiger Day discussion in Mongla on 29 July 2025, campaigner Md Nur Alam Sheikh said 30 tigers had died in 25 years, 14 of them beaten to death by local people. Speakers called for an end to poisoning in the Sundarbans' waterways and to tiger trafficking.
Volunteers rescued a 12-foot python from a haystack in Sharankhola, and forest officials released it into the Sundarbans.
Saudi date palm saplings are the biggest draw at Bagerhat's week-long tree fair, with a local nursery selling 60-70 a day.
A tree-planting programme was held in Bagerhat on 19 July in memory of the district's nine martyrs of the July uprising.
The forest department rescued a 10-foot python that had entered a chicken coop in a village next to the Sundarbans and released it into the forest.
Forest guards seized 42 kg of deer meat in the Sundarbans after four poachers fled into the forest.
The forest department will pay Tk 2,000 per kilogram of nylon snares handed in from the East Sundarbans to curb deer poaching.
Crops'Fatema rice' grew from three giant panicles found in a hybrid rice field in Fakirhat, Bagerhat; the family said each panicle held over a thousand grains. By April 2021 farmers in Faridpur were growing it too, though it was not an approved variety.
The Navy and Coast Guard detained 48 Indian fishermen with three fishing trawlers for fishing inside Bangladesh's waters in the Bay of Bengal.
An 8-foot python caught in a farmer's fencing net in Morrelganj, Bagerhat, was rescued by a village tiger response team and released into the Sundarbans.
A seven-foot python found in a chicken coop in Morrelganj, Bagerhat, was rescued and released into the Sundarbans.
