Fisheries
20 kg koral netted in the Sundarbans' Bhola river sells for Tk 36,000
A fisherman from Sarankhola, Bagerhat, caught a 20 kg koral (barramundi) in the Bhola river of the Sundarbans; it sold for Tk 36,000, or Tk 1,800 a kilo.
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Environment
21 unlicensed resorts in the Sundarbans critical zone, ten on a dolphin sanctuary canal
Within the Sundarbans' 10-kilometre ecologically critical area, 21 resorts and cottages have gone up in seven or eight years and 10 more are being built; none has Department of Environment clearance or district registration.
Gallery
Pictures: Dimer Char in the Sundarbans, red crabs, kash grass and homebound trawlers
A photo story from Dimer Char, a quiet stretch of beach and mangrove where the Sundarbans meets the Bay of Bengal.
Gallery
Pictures: Sundarbans nipa palm fruit reaches Dhaka at Tk 10 apiece
Fruit of the golpata, the nipa palm of the Sundarbans, brought from the Khulna region is sold from a van in Dhaka's Jurain at Tk 10 each.
Fisheries
Sundarbans fish farmers help shape guidelines for ponds shared with mangroves
About 50 farmers from the Indian Sundarbans tested draft rules and business models for integrated mangrove aquaculture at a WorldFish and IWMI workshop in West Bengal.
Gallery
Deer, birds and nipa palms: Kochikhali in the Sundarbans, in pictures
Where the Bay of Bengal meets the Sundarbans mangroves, Kochikhali is home to deer, birds, butterflies and forests of golpata and gewa.
World
Zero-tillage under straw on saline Sundarbans land: a decade of Australian-Indian research puts women farmers in front
At a seminar at Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission, Australia's ACIAR and CSIRO, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya and the saline-soil research station at Canning presented ten years of work on West Bengal's cyclone-battered coast, rainwater harvesting and straw-mulched surface cropping have brough
Environment
Next Bangladesh-India Meeting on Sundarbans and Tigers to Be Held in Bangladesh
Bangladesh and India agreed that their next joint meeting on Sundarbans biodiversity and Royal Bengal tiger conservation will be held in Bangladesh.
Environment
West Bengal Plans New 'Arjun Force' for the Sundarbans and Hills
The West Bengal government plans to form a new "Arjun Force" of retired army personnel and deploy it in the Sundarbans and hill areas to handle emergencies.
Environment
Sundarbans Reopens: Debt on the Shore, Fear of Pirates in the Forest
The Sundarbans reopens on 1 September after its three-month breeding-season closure, but the fishers and forest workers heading back in carry heavy debts and fear of pirates.
Crops
Sundarbans Tigers Could Soon Disappear
Though the Sundarbans tiger count has risen to 125, climate change, salinity and habitat loss threaten the Royal Bengal tiger unless conservation is stepped up.
Environment
Tigress Returned to the Sundarbans After Six Months of Treatment
A Royal Bengal tigress badly injured in a poachers' snare has been released back into the Sundarbans after about six months of treatment in Khulna.
EnvironmentSpotted deer vanishing from Nijhum Dwip: causes and what conservation needs
Nijhum Dwip in Noakhali had 22,000 spotted deer in 1996, but habitat loss, poaching, predators and food shortages cut the herd below 2,000 by 2015; a Jagonews24 article in July 2026 called for action to save them.