A timber racket is clearing around 200 acres of natural forest in remote Chaikkhyang on the Alikadam-Thanchi border, cutting hills for roads and drying up the streams Mro villages depend on.
Four people from Suwalok union, including a father and his son, were sent to jail on court orders for poaching deer in Bandarban.
BangladeshA 35-year-old man, Abdus Salam, was trampled to death by a wild elephant that had wandered into a village in Baishari union of Naikhongchhari, Bandarban, on the morning of 3 January 2026, as he tried to photograph it.
Traffickers abandoned an endangered black bear cub and fled as the forest department raided Alikadam bazar in Bandarban.
Interest in natural beekeeping is growing in Bandarban, where backyard honey from Tetulia Para sells from the door at Tk 1,800 to 2,000 a kg.
A python at least seven feet long, tangled in a net guarding a vegetable field in Alikadam, Bandarban, has been rescued by the forest department.
A two-day drive ordered by the High Court razed six illegal brick kilns at Faitong in Lama upazila, and saplings were planted where they stood.
A wild elephant was badly injured by a landmine on the Naikhongchhari-Myanmar border and is receiving first aid from the forest department.
A cashew and coffee project is drawing hill farmers away from jhum cultivation, while processors and big corporate groups move into the trade.
The forest department has rescued an endangered slow loris from a residential area in Lama, Bandarban.
Bandarban's markets are full of local and foreign mangoes selling at Tk 60 to Tk 300 a kg, though most buyers stick to cheaper local varieties.
A 32-year-old woman, Esther Bawm, was injured in a wild bear attack in the Chimbuk area of Bandarban.
The mini zoo at Bandarban's Meghla tourist spot has been closed permanently by court order, and its wild animals are being moved to Dulahazara Safari Park.
