AgribusinessIn November 2025 more than a hundred nurseries along the riverbank in Uttara's sectors 15 and 16 were busy with the winter flower season, and their owners said 40 to 50 per cent of buyers were rooftop gardeners.
A troop of monkeys that appeared on the boundary wall of Bangabhaban drew curious crowds in Dhaka, a reminder of the wildlife the city has lost.
Winter has not yet arrived in Dhaka, but Karwan Bazar is already filled with cauliflower, cabbage, beans, radish, mustard greens, olives and water chestnuts.
EnvironmentThe Bangladesh Animal Welfare Association said in November 2025 that it had rescued 351 snakes, all but three venomous, from crowded parts of Dhaka in four months, some from ninth-floor flats. The Forest Department said it had no information on such a surge.
Protecting a few celebrated species such as tigers and elephants will not halt the silent extinction of Bangladesh's wildlife, the writer argues.
On World Animal Day, a look at how visitors at Dhaka's Mirpur zoo torment caged animals and why that must stop.
Dhaka North City Corporation planted 1,600 trees at Diabari as part of a plan to plant 5 lakh trees to restore the city's biodiversity.
Year-round watermelon farming has grown so much that the fruit is on sale in Dhaka well after summer.
Environment, forest and climate adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan says saving Dhaka depends on saving its canals and water bodies.
AgribusinessOn 5 September 2025, hilsa over one kilo sold for Tk 2,600 to 3,000 a kg in several Dhaka markets. Jagonews24 reported the price had risen by Tk 200 to 300 a kg in a week, and other fish had also become dearer.
AgribusinessOn 22 August 2025 one-kilo hilsa sold for Tk 2,500-2,700 a kg in Mirpur, Dhaka; with prices up in a week, shoppers bought small fish and left the big ones unsold.
AgribusinessOn 15 August 2025 hilsa supply had risen in markets in Mirpur, Dhaka, and sellers said prices were somewhat lower than the week before, though buyers wanted them to fall further.
The Dhaka North City Corporation will give full support to any person or organisation that takes up greening anywhere in Dhaka, its administrator Mohammad Ejaz said.
