BangladeshA wild elephant attacked a home in Eidgarh union of Ramu, Cox’s Bazar, on the night of 17 June 2025, killing a one-and-a-half-year-old boy and injuring his 10-year-old sister.
Intermittent rain and tidal water let into shrimp land ended Cox's Bazar's salt season short of target, though BSCIC says field stocks of about 14 lakh tonnes make imports unnecessary.
Jafar Alam, 72, was killed by a stray wild elephant at dawn on 5 May in Fashiakhali union of Chakaria in Cox's Bazar.
A 70-year-old man, Mohammad Hossain, has been killed by a wild elephant in Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar.
EnvironmentBy 5 April 2025, 5,098 sea turtle hatchlings had been released from 12 points in Ukhiya and Teknaf, Cox's Bazar, the last 550 that afternoon, from 26,900 eggs NACOM said were collected that season.
A CODEC project released 1,773 turtle hatchlings on the Ukhiya and Teknaf coasts of Cox's Bazar in two and a half months of this breeding season.
A male wild elephant aged about 40 was found dead in the remote hills of Ukhia in Cox's Bazar on 13 March.
Despite a good harvest, Cox's Bazar salt farmers are selling below cost, accusing mill owners of a syndicate and storing salt in pits in the hope of higher prices.
Salt farmers and traders poured salt on the Cox's Bazar-Chattogram highway at Chakaria to demand a fair price for locally produced salt.
A columnist argues that everyday cruelty to animals in Bangladesh, left unpunished, feeds the same mindset that drives mob violence against people.
Four nesting sea turtles have been fitted with satellite tags and released on Teknaf beach in Cox's Bazar for research.
Researchers have recovered more than a hundred dead mother turtles, most of them egg-bearing olive ridleys, from the Cox's Bazar coast during the breeding season.
A wild elephant estimated to be 8-10 years old has died in the hills of Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.
