A crocodile seized crab fisherman Subrata Mondal as he swam across the Karamjal canal in the Sundarbans, and the Forest Department, his family and villagers searched for his body.
The Coast Guard held eight people with deer meat and crabs at Harbaria in the Sundarbans during the forest's seasonal harvest ban.
Villagers in Shyamnagar, Satkhira, pulled a spotted deer from a pond after it fled the Sundarbans, and forest officials released it back into the forest.
EnvironmentAt a World Tiger Day discussion in Mongla on 29 July 2025, campaigner Md Nur Alam Sheikh said 30 tigers had died in 25 years, 14 of them beaten to death by local people. Speakers called for an end to poisoning in the Sundarbans' waterways and to tiger trafficking.
Climate change, a shrinking prey base and poaching are putting the endangered tigers of the Sundarbans under threat, experts say.
The Sundarbans tiger count has risen to 125, but poachers and pirates mean the forest is still not safe for tigers or the people who work in it.
Volunteers rescued a 12-foot python from a haystack in Sharankhola, and forest officials released it into the Sundarbans.
The forest department rescued a 10-foot python that had entered a chicken coop in a village next to the Sundarbans and released it into the forest.
Under the influence of a depression, a tidal surge two and a half to three feet above normal flooded large parts of the Sundarbans.
Forest guards seized 42 kg of deer meat in the Sundarbans after four poachers fled into the forest.
Sixty-five hatchlings have emerged from the eggs of a critically endangered Batagur baska turtle at the Karamjal wildlife breeding centre in the Sundarbans.
The forest department will pay Tk 2,000 per kilogram of nylon snares handed in from the East Sundarbans to curb deer poaching.
Coast Guard members seized 110kg of deer meat from two boats in the western Sundarbans and detained one suspected poacher.
