EnvironmentAn injured Bengal slow loris, an endangered primate, was rescued from Shantipur in Gumti union of Khagrachhari's Matiranga upazila on 5 May 2026 and treated at an animal hospital the next day; the Forest Department said it would be released once it recovered.
EnvironmentA herd of three wild elephants entered Syed Colony in West Khuniapalong, Ramu upazila, around dawn on 30 April 2026 and killed a woman and her small daughter. The Forest Department said the herd was driven back into the forest and the family would receive financial assistance.
EnvironmentA Jagonews24 report of 8 April 2026 said Lawachara National Park in Moulvibazar still had no boundary marked on the ground 30 years after its declaration, and that theft, encroachment, traffic and crowds were damaging the forest. Forest officials said they had written to the settlement office and that visitors and drivers ignored the rules.
EnvironmentForest guards on patrol at Dimer Char in Kochikhali, in the Sundarbans' Sharankhola range, arrested a man the Forest Department accuses of deer poaching on 4 April 2026 and seized about 4,000 feet of mala snares; five others fled, the department said.
EnvironmentJagonews24 reported on 14 March 2026 that two local Union Parishad members were accused of running a CC block factory deep in the Garo Hills forest of Nalitabari, Sherpur, an area known as a wild elephant habitat; one denied making the blocks for sale, and the Forest Department said it had stopped the work and seized the equipment.
EnvironmentOn World Wildlife Day, 3 March 2026, the birds, squirrels, bats and small reptiles living around Bangladeshi homes were losing trees, water and nesting places to concrete; native trees, clean water, fewer pesticides, free birds and calls to the Forest Department in place of home rescue help protect them.
EnvironmentForest officials on 17 February 2026 rescued a critically endangered gharial, about two and a half feet long, and three turtles from a tank at the YouTube Village park in Shimulia, Khoksa, where, local sources said, the gharial had been kept since a fisherman netted it in October 2025.
EnvironmentVillagers in Kalkini, Madaripur, trapped a crocodile about eight feet long, tied it with rope and beat it to death on 29 March 2025. The Forest Department said legal action would follow a post-mortem.
EnvironmentUnder the slogan "Turtles are friends of the environment; let them live in nature", the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Forest Department launched a turtle conservation campaign in Satkhira on 2 February 2025, due to run in Gopalganj, Madaripur and Khulna until 13 February.
CropsOn 3 February 2025 a wildlife inspector of the Forest Department filed a case in Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate Court-2 against two content creators over videos of slaughtering and roasting pond herons and lesser whistling ducks. The court issued summonses.
EnvironmentMore than 15 pythons entered villages in Mirsarai, Chattogram, in the year to October 2024, most caught in nets protecting crops. Forest and livestock officials put it down to shrinking habitat and a lack of food; every python was released in the forest.
EnvironmentThe coastal forest department rescued two fishing cat cubs from a sawmill at Acharbunia in Sabrang union, Teknaf, on 3 February 2024 and sent them to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park at Dulahazara, Chakaria.
EnvironmentForest Department staff rescued a young male fishing cat that local people had caught with a net at a house in Naitongpara, Teknaf, on 22 May 2023, and released it in the Sairon canal area near Betbagan the same afternoon.
