Tourists on two luxury cruisers and forest guards filmed three tigers swimming across rivers in the Sundarbans' Sharankhola range as the tourist season opened.
India, Nepal and Bhutan have made major gains in tiger numbers, with India now home to about 75% of the world's tigers.
As World Tiger Day is marked, Bangladesh's Sundarbans tiger numbers remain far from the 2010 doubling goal and the exact current count is unknown.
Residents of Sonadia island in Cox's Bazar are alarmed after a camera captured a tiger-like animal, though forest officials say it is most likely a fishing cat or jungle cat.
Royal Bengal tigers are appearing at Sundarbans tourist spots and tiger killings have fallen, but officials say only a new camera-trap survey can show whether numbers have grown.
A 17-year-old Siberian tiger has given birth to four cubs at a breeding centre in north-eastern China.
A young fishing cat rescued from a maize field in Meherpur has been released into a local forest.
The environment minister said investigators are checking whether anyone instigated the animal deaths at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur.
Shaon, the only tigress at Rangpur zoo, died of old age on Friday night, leaving the zoo with no tiger.
The National Zoo has started the tender process to bring in five new species, including red kangaroos and African lions, within about three months.
Two giraffe calves have been born at the National Zoo in Mirpur, part of a breeding boom of about 350 animals while the zoo was closed for Covid.
Animals at the National Zoo in Mirpur are in good health while the zoo is closed to visitors, and the authorities say viral photos of starving animals are not theirs.
Natore Sadar police rescued two fishing cat cubs after a call to the national emergency service 999 and handed them over to the Forest Department.
