Thousands of egrets and cormorants from Hakaluki haor roost at the late Manohar Ali Master's two-and-a-half-acre homestead in Halla village, Moulvibazar; the trees are ageing and promised support has not come.
EnvironmentSpread around the world by human transport, the invasive Argentine ant forms vast supercolonies that wipe out native ants; in southern California four of them have fought along their borders for a century.
EnvironmentA year-long pilot at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm used 16 thermal cameras and AI to watch birds and bats around a turbine, logging 22 possible collisions, two of them confirmed.
CropsAn Oxford study found better pollination raised cocoa yields by up to 20%, yet organic cocoa is only 4% of EU bean imports and nature-friendly farming still depends mostly on farmers and NGOs.
EnvironmentA Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust report drawing on 25 years of research says the hedgerows, woodland, game crops and winter feed kept for released pheasants and partridges also feed and shelter other farmland species.
In Nuruil village in Bogura Sadar, hundreds of red, blue and yellow dragonflies have spread their wings on dried chilli plants and vegetable shoots.
EnvironmentA new global assessment finds about 20% of land and 10% of the ocean protected, short of the 30x30 goal agreed in Montreal, and a study suggests only a quarter of marine protected areas deliver real conservation.
The forest department is raising 98 rare and endangered native tree species in Rangamati and Khagrachhari; 55 species are protected under the 2012 law.
EnvironmentThe Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust, formed by farmers in 2001, is combining drone imagery with on-foot surveys and eDNA tests to show landowners such as fourth-generation farmer Tim Coop what indigenous vegetation survives on their 1,600 hectare hill properties, and to map regrowth after Februar
The government has nominated the Halda, Asia's only tidal natural carp spawning river, for UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere programme, with the 2,709-hectare Hazarikhil sanctuary as core zone and a 10,588-hectare buffer along the banks.
In Habiganj's Satchari National Park, named for seven hill streams, four streams no longer exist and the other three barely flow; with the forest ponds filled by sand and silt, officials and experts warn the park's 197 animal species could run short of water in the coming dry season.
A ten-year-old spotted cat living in a Bolivian rescue centre has been confirmed by DNA analysis as an entirely new species, and the study suggests there are five tiger cat species rather than three.
Firefly larvae spend one to several years in soil and leaf litter; pesticides kill the snails and worms they eat, cleared scrub removes their shelter, and street lights drown out the flashes they use to find a mate.
