Crocodiles, Tokay Gecko and Birds Released in the Sundarbans
Crocodiles, a tokay gecko and birds seized from various places were released into the forest and waterbodies at Karamjal in the Sundarbans.
Crocodiles, a tokay gecko and birds seized from various places were released into the forest and waterbodies at Karamjal in the Sundarbans.
In salt-hit Mongla, where farming and livestock had all but vanished, more than a hundred women are now growing vegetables and rearing goats and sheep.
Forest officials rescued an 11-foot python weighing 20kg from a homestead in Morrelganj, Bagerhat, and released it into the reserve forest.
A cow that went to drink from the Shela river in the Sundarbans at Mongla was attacked by a crocodile and later rescued by the Forest Department.
A 10-foot python was rescued from a village ditch in Sharankhola, Bagerhat, and released in the eastern Sundarbans.
A near-extinct dhum softshell turtle caught in a fishing net in a Bagerhat pond has been rescued by the forest department and will be released.
Fourteen animals, including crocodiles and snakes, seized from a resort in Bagerhat have been released at Karamjal in the Sundarbans.
Another critically endangered Batagur baska turtle fitted with an Indian satellite transmitter has been recovered in Bangladesh.
A Batagur baska turtle at the Karamjal Wildlife Breeding Centre in the East Sundarbans has laid 34 eggs.
One hundred crocodiles were released in the Sundarbans, a World Heritage Site, to mark Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birth centenary.
The Forest Department rescued a deer that came into a village in Mongla, next to the Sundarbans, after being injured in a suspected tiger attack, and released it back into the forest after first aid.
Thirty-seven Batagur baska hatchlings emerged from 50 eggs laid by two turtles at the Karamjal Wildlife Breeding Centre in the eastern Sundarbans.
Four of the 44 eggs laid by saltwater crocodile Pilpil at the Karamjal wildlife breeding centre in the eastern Sundarbans have hatched, raising the centre's total to 199 crocodiles.