EnvironmentA new IUCN global assessment finds 96 percent of 127 reef systems critically endangered, with almost all shallow-water reefs at very high risk of collapse within 50 years, driven by ocean warming and bleaching.
OpinionJahangirnagar University zoologist Ashish Dutta writes that 390 of 1,619 species assessed in Bangladesh's 2015 Red List are threatened and 31 are extinct in the country, and asks planners to weigh animals' needs in every road, dam and settlement.
Professor Farid Ahsan of Chittagong University says 80 percent of the snakes found in Bangladesh are not venomous.
Seven of nine radio-collared lorises released in the park died within a short time; deforestation is pushing the endangered nocturnal primate into villages, where roads, railway lines and power lines kill it.
The IUCN says the Bengal fox, currently listed as near threatened, could move into the endangered category in its ongoing reassessment.
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.
EnvironmentForest department officials rescued three Himalayan griffon vultures that could not fly from maize fields in Patgram, Lalmonirhat, on the morning of 14 January 2026, and were arranging to send them to the vulture care centre in Dinajpur.
AgribusinessOn 5 January 2026, members of the student environmental group TEER rescued a sick Himalayan griffon vulture at Kochhim Bazar in Sundarganj, Gaibandha, and handed it to the Rangpur forest department that evening.
EnvironmentA December 2025 Jagonews24 feature said the woodpecker's long tongue, looped around the skull, works like a seat belt; research partly supports this, and the IUCN Bangladesh assessment lists no woodpecker as threatened, though large forest species are under pressure.
FisheriesBFRI's Freshwater Station in Mymensingh developed a method for farming gulsha, a scarce native catfish, in floating river cages, opening rivers to native fish farming.
