OpinionWriting in Ajker Patrika, agriculturist and environment specialist Mrityunjoy Roy argues that rewilding is a simple path to restoring nature and that Bangladesh should consider such projects. The views are the writer's own.
EnvironmentThe first global review of the Kunming-Montreal nature deal warns its 23 targets will be missed without faster action, while the call to reform harmful subsidies, many of them to agriculture, was softened.
EnvironmentWildlife specialist Dr A N M Aminur Rahman photographed the rare and endangered crimson rose (Pachliopta hector) on a yellow wildflower beside the Katka tower in the Sundarbans, and saw it again at Kuakata's Lembur Bon.
EnvironmentA three-and-a-half-year project by Nestlé and BirdLife Europe will measure selected bird populations on participating European farms to judge whether regenerative practices deliver real gains for wildlife.
A UN assessment launched at COP17 in Yerevan counts 252 million hectares being restored in 149 countries and says yearly restoration finance must rise from $64 billion to $296 billion by 2030.
EnvironmentBeside the rows of hijal and koroch trees at Golabari in Tanguar Haor, nature writer Mokarram Hossain found a trailing vine with lantern-like fruit, latafutki or balloon vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum), which springs up by itself each year as the haor dries.
EnvironmentA James Hutton Institute study of ash, oak, Scots pine and Sitka spruce found that the right tree mix kept up to 94% of dependent species supported, the wrong one as few as 1%.
OpinionWriting in Down To Earth, Swasti Pachauri traces açaí's rise from an Amazonian staple to a wellness trend and argues India can turn jamun, amla, phalsa and other native fruits into products, if communities share the gains.
EnvironmentResearchers from the Chattogram Bird Club and the University of Chittagong confirmed the yellow-throated sparrow in Bangladesh from photos taken at Boroichhari, Kaptai, on 24 April; their paper in the journal Check List says it is the species' easternmost record in the world.
EnvironmentThe Animals for Biodiversity and Health guide, launched at the UN biodiversity summit in Yerevan, links animal welfare to zoonotic disease and antimicrobial resistance and cites Bangladesh's One Health framework.
OpinionEcologist R.J. Ranjit Daniels argues in Mongabay India that the movement of species since 1492 has reshaped Earth's biogeography faster than in any earlier period, with farming and land use as amplifiers.
EnvironmentMore than 10,000 delegates meet in Armenia for the halfway review of the Kunming-Montreal framework, after a UN report found fewer than half the assessed targets on track.
The scientific identity of the 'sky blue neotropical cockroach' found in the forests of South America's Guiana Shield is still uncertain; a 2015 survey in the journal ZooKeys recorded 234 cockroach species in the region.
