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.
More migratory birds have gathered at Narasunda Lake City in Kishoreganj this winter, though encroachment and pollution threaten the sanctuary.
EnvironmentA mobile court in Rajshahi jailed a man for three days on 28 January 2025 after he was caught on a Padma char with four dead common teal, a protected migratory duck; a seized current net was burnt.
Visitors and locals say fewer migratory birds are coming to Baikka Beel, while this year's waterbird census recorded a rise.
For eight winters flocks of lesser whistling ducks have rested at Janeshwar Dighi in Lakshmipur Sadar, where villagers and the pond's lessee protect them.
After a Rajshahi volunteer group demanded action, the forest department began searching for two vloggers whose videos showed them roasting and eating egrets and wild ducks.
Migratory birds have again flocked to Ramrai Dighi in Ranisankail upazila of Thakurgaon, drawing visitors who urged the authorities to keep them safe.
Twenty-nine slaughtered migratory birds found in a sack abandoned on a char in the Meghna were handed over to the Forest Department in Bhola.
Faridpur district Chhatra Dal has hung clay pots in trees on and around the Government Rajendra College campus to give visiting migratory birds safe shelter.
A large char in the Bishkhali river at Shouljalia in Kathalia, Jhalakathi, has been made a bird sanctuary where hunting, grazing and felling are banned.
Thousands of migratory birds have again come to Matian Dighi in Dhamair union of Biral upazila, Dinajpur, filling the village with their calls from before dawn until sunset.
Thousands of migratory birds have flocked to Burungi Beel amid the crop fields of Nepaltali union in Bogura's Gabtali upazila.
Jahangirnagar University's zoology department held a day-long bird fair, the 23rd of its kind, to raise public awareness of bird conservation.
