Rooftop farmingFrom 9 to 23 July 2026, the month-long National Tree Fair in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar sold 8,12,802 saplings worth Tk 6,73,29,236, with indoor plants and rooftop garden trees selling best.
CropsIn an essay published by Jagonews24 two days before World Nature Conservation Day on 28 July 2026, the writer argued that with forests shrinking, pollution rising and the climate changing, protecting nature falls to every citizen, not only the government.
CropsThe Bengal slow loris, Endangered on the IUCN Red List, is straying into villages in Khagrachhari as its food trees disappear; in April 2025 the Forest Department rescued two within a week and released them in the Alutila reserved forest.
CropsA family in Moulvibazar's Kamalganj says the Forest Department destroyed its orchard of about 1,200 orange trees during a 16 July 2026 eviction because it had stopped making monthly payments to a forest official; the department says orchards on reserved forest land are illegal and the drive was lawful.
EnvironmentA joint drive in the Adampur beat of the Rajkandi range at Kamalganj, Moulvibazar, recovered about five acres of reserved forest on 16 July 2026. According to the Forest Department and local sources, local influential people had long occupied the land with malta, pineapple, lemon and betel nut gardens.
FisheriesOn 15 July 2026 a python about 8 feet long and weighing 11 kg was caught in fishermen's net in Kalmakanda, Netrokona; the next day the Forest Department rescued it and released it in the Kanthalbari forest near the Lengura border.
EnvironmentIn July 2026 the Forest Department strung rope crossings between trees at five points on the Tangail-Mymensingh highway through Madhupur forest, to cut the number of monkeys, langurs and other animals killed by traffic.
EnvironmentA wild mother elephant was seriously injured on 11 July 2026 after slipping down a steep hillside in Naitongpara, Teknaf, Cox's Bazar, the Forest Department said; vets treated her where she fell.
EnvironmentOn 8 July 2026 the Forest Department recovered a critically endangered elongated tortoise, brought for sale to Boalkhali bazar in Dighinala, Khagrachhari, from an abandoned fish drum, and said it would be released after health checks.
EnvironmentOn 2 July 2026 the Forest Department's Wildlife Crime Control Unit recovered 1,104 exotic animals, among them tarantulas, a Mexican black kingsnake, corn snakes and more than a thousand turtles, from rooftop aquariums in Rupnagar, Dhaka.
EnvironmentA video of a wild animal in Jagdal union of Magura Sadar spread fear of a tiger in June 2026; the district forest department identified it from the footage as an endangered fishing cat.
EnvironmentOn 3 June 2026 the Forest Department took the last crocodile from the pond beside Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali's shrine in Bagerhat to a rescue centre in Khulna after it killed an eight-year-old girl. Caretakers, who say crocodiles had lived there for 600 years, demanded its return with safety fencing.
EnvironmentOn 11 May 2026 the Forest Department rescued two wounded deer from two villages of Charduani union in Patharghata, Barguna, and released them into the Sundarbans after first aid. It said it was investigating how they were hurt.
