Md Rakibul Amin, owner of Gardening Bangladesh, is being honoured in the National Tree Planting Award 2025 for a decade of greening Dhaka's rooftops, balconies and offices.
Saplings planted under the government's 250 million tree programme will be monitored by satellite, GIS, remote sensing and drones, Environment Minister Abdul Awal Mintoo said.
State Minister Mir Shahe Alam said Bogura had been neglected for 20 years as he opened tree planting along the re-excavated Barail-Bakson canal in Shibganj.
The foreign ministry has sent mangoes through Benapole as a goodwill gift, including 100 kg for West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.
FruitsAt a Dhaka roundtable on 27 June 2026, fruit expert Dr. Md. Mehedi Masud said 65 percent of Bangladesh's roughly 15.2 million tonnes of annual fruit output comes in four months, and called for storage, processing and year-round production.
EnvironmentBangladesh's Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education said in a letter of 27 June 2026 that every government and MPO-listed secondary institution had received a Tk 5,000 climate grant to plant trees under the "One Child, One Tree" programme, due to be inaugurated on 29 June.
Government figures report steady hilsa production, but fishermen, wholesalers and traders in Chandpur say the fish is disappearing from the rivers.
BangladeshThree male blue peacocks fanned their trains together at the Bangladesh National Zoo in Mirpur, Dhaka, on 26 June 2026, drawing crowds who gathered to photograph the courtship display.
The High Court has ordered a judicial inquiry into allegations that hilsa worth about a crore of taka, bought by traders in Charfasson, Bhola, disappeared after being seized.
CropsAt the closing workshop of a hilsa development project in Dhaka on 22 June 2026, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said hilsa should be developed as an export resource through long-term, science-based planning.
FruitsOn 20 June 2026, the last day of the three-day National Fruit Fair at the KIB grounds in Khamarbari, visitors crowded round a 'Brunei King' mango of about five kilograms at the Department of Agricultural Extension stall. Officials said the variety weighs 3 to 5kg and suits the processing industry.
EnvironmentLaunching NCP Dhaka North's week-long tree-planting programme for World Environment Day on 6 June 2026, party spokesperson Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain said there was no alternative to long-term government planning on the environment and climate.
Dhaka North City Corporation says 18,344 tonnes of Qurbani waste were taken to landfill by the third day of its 72-hour action plan.
