EnvironmentOn 28 July 2026 two large pythons were rescued from the Jagchhara and Phulbari tea gardens in Moulvibazar. Jagonews24 reported one at about 16 feet and the other at 17 feet; both were handed to the forest department.
CropsA family in Moulvibazar's Kamalganj says the Forest Department destroyed its orchard of about 1,200 orange trees during a 16 July 2026 eviction because it had stopped making monthly payments to a forest official; the department says orchards on reserved forest land are illegal and the drive was lawful.
EnvironmentBangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation rescued a python about 18 feet long from beside a community centre in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, on 21 July 2026 and handed it to the forest range office for release in the forest.
EnvironmentA joint drive in the Adampur beat of the Rajkandi range at Kamalganj, Moulvibazar, recovered about five acres of reserved forest on 16 July 2026. According to the Forest Department and local sources, local influential people had long occupied the land with malta, pineapple, lemon and betel nut gardens.
The Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation rescued a python from a house in Sreemangal where ducks and chickens had been disappearing.
EnvironmentThe district relief and rehabilitation office said on 15 July 2026 that floods had damaged 3,932 mud and semi-pucca houses in Kamalganj, Rajnagar, Kulaura and Sadar upazilas of Moulvibazar, 2,493 of them completely.
EnvironmentOn 15 July 2026 the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said low-lying areas along the Manu and Khowai rivers in Moulvibazar and Habiganj could be temporarily flooded within 24 hours, while the Teesta, Kushiyara, Someshwari above danger level.
Floods have damaged 95 kilometres of roads in Moulvibazar, and repairs will cost at least Tk 28 crore, the LGED says.
EnvironmentSitesh Ranjan Deb, founder chairman of the Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation in Sreemangal and a familiar face of the country's wildlife-conservation movement, died at his home on 14 July 2026. He was 75.
Floods in Moulvibazar have damaged crops and fish farms, leaving farmers who borrowed from NGOs in distress.
AgribusinessJuly 2026 floods across about 28 unions of Moulvibazar submerged grazing land and fodder, leaving many cattle sick and their owners unable even to sell them cheaply; the district livestock office was still assessing the losses.
Floodwater has begun to recede in Moulvibazar, but mud, fuel shortages and a lack of clean drinking water mean many flood-hit families still cannot light their stoves.
EnvironmentFrom 11 July 2026 the Manu and Dhalai rivers in Moulvibazar began to fall and the flood eased, but diarrhoea, dysentery and fever broke out in the flood-hit parts of four upazilas.
