A satellite-tagged saltwater crocodile that left the Sundarbans is now roaming the confluence of the Panguchi, Baleshwar and Kacha rivers, and fry collectors are staying out of the water.
Mongla port released 51 tonnes of imported apples on 21 December, the first apple consignment to come through the port.
Tourists on two luxury cruisers and forest guards filmed three tigers swimming across rivers in the Sundarbans' Sharankhola range as the tourist season opened.
Plenty of cattle have reached Mongla's traditional Chaterhat, but with no Indian cattle in the market, high prices have left buyers disappointed.
A 10-foot-long bull at a Rampal farm, said to be Bagerhat's biggest, is on offer for Tk 10 lakh ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.
The freshwater crocodile at Khan Jahan Ali's shrine pond in Bagerhat has laid 50-60 eggs, but officials say its age means they are unlikely to hatch.
The Forest Department detained three fishermen preparing to hunt deer and catch fish in the Sundarbans and seized a boat, nets and 25 deer traps.
Forest guards in Mongla seized eight kilograms of deer meat that two fleeing smugglers threw into a shrimp enclosure near the Sundarbans.
A python rescued from a tree on the bank of the Pashur river near the Sundarbans in Mongla has been released back into the forest.
An eight-foot python found in a farmer's vegetable field in Sharankhola, Bagerhat, was rescued and released into the Sundarbans.
A bumper tomato harvest in coastal Bagerhat has pushed wholesale prices down to Tk 2 to 3 a kg, leaving farmers unable even to pay for picking.
Deer poachers beat a Sundarbans forest station officer and three forest guards with boat oars in Mongla after the team seized 20 kg of deer meat.
Forest staff in Mongla rescued a rare freshwater sundhi turtle that a smuggler had brought to market for sale, and released it into a pond.
