EnvironmentFarmer Hasan caught a large Russell's viper trying to bite a sheep in Shimultala field near the zero line in Damurhuda. The Forest Department will release it in the Sundarbans through a team from Khulna.
FisheriesShrimp and fish are still being caught with pesticide in the rivers and canals of the Sundarbans. The West forest division filed 34 cases from June to August and arrested 25 people; experts warn of harm to the ecosystem and to human health.
EnvironmentAbout a thousand monkeys in Nayachar and Char Mugaria, Madaripur, are entering homes for food since the government's food allocation stopped in June 2025; the social forestry office has asked for funds but not received them.
EnvironmentRubbish from Batali station in Chattogram's Lohagara has been dumped at night in the Banpukur and Jangalia areas of Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary for about 15 days; the range officer promises legal action.
OpinionIn a Prothom Alo column, the paper's climate project manager Khaliullah argues that poison-fishing cases in the Sundarbans collapse in court because the Forest Department has no laboratory of its own.
EnvironmentPugmarks stretching about half a kilometre were found on a char of the Bhola river at Sonatala village in Sharankhola, Bagerhat, on Monday morning; the Forest Department says the tiger swam over from the Sundarbans and went back, but has told villagers to stay alert.
EnvironmentPart of the administration of Gazipur's forests is run from Dhaka; with encroachment and illegal structures spreading, two local groups have demanded a separate Gazipur forest division among five demands.
EnvironmentThe Forest Department says 10 to 11-year-old keora, gewa and baen trees were pulled up in its 75-hectare South Char Biswas mangrove plantation and embankments dug across about 200 acres; it has filed a general diary.
EnvironmentLama Forest Division in Bandarban handed government cheques totalling Tk 2,159,000 to 66 families harmed by wild elephant attacks, as the chief conservator urged protection of elephant habitat and corridors.
EnvironmentForest officials visited Kamalchhari Natun Para on Sunday after a video of an endangered masked palm civet, beaten to death on Thursday, spread on social media; those involved have not been found.
The NGO Uddipan bought the Bhaluka farm at auction but has no Forest Department licence in its name, so about 400 export-ready skins cannot be sold; no exports are recorded since 2019.
Forest staff rescued a 9-foot, 9-kilogram Burmese python crossing the road at Hotapara truck stand in Gazipur Sadar late on Monday night and placed it in the python enclosure at Gazipur Safari Park.
Almost every tree of a plantation raised in 2017-18 at Daodhara-Katabari mouza in the Madhutila range of Nalitabari has been cut; the partners say the Forest Department could have stopped it, the range officer says he knew nothing, and the divisional forest officer has formed an inquiry committee.
