AgrotechFifteen artificial intelligence cameras on elephant routes in Nalitabari send a Telegram alert within a minute of spotting wild elephants, giving villagers time to protect crops and lives.
EnvironmentAbout 150 wild elephants in the Garo Hills of Sherpur and Jamalpur have been unable to return to Meghalaya for two years; foraging in farmland, they destroyed crops on about 435 hectares in Sherpur over two fiscal years.
EnvironmentAt Madhutila Eco Park in Sherpur, environment minister Abdul Awal Mintoo said a sanctuary and six India-Bangladesh corridors will be pursued to ease human-elephant conflict, and handed out Tk 1.665 million in compensation.
EnvironmentTigers, bears, deer and fishing cats once roamed the Garo Hills of Nalitabari, Jhenaigati and Sreebardi; with the forest shrinking they are no longer seen, and wild elephants now come down to farmland in search of food.
Locals in Nalitabari, Sherpur, allege encroachment and night-time tree felling in the Forest Department's Gopalpur beat; social-forestry partners say they paid money to get their cheques, which the beat officer denies.
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.
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.
FruitsIn Meghadal, a hill village of Sherpur's Sreebardi upazila, entrepreneur Mizanur Rahman was growing about 50 foreign grape varieties on 150 plants in August 2025, with green grapes sold locally at Tk 250-300 a kg, the grower told reporters.
