EnvironmentLaunching the planting of 350 saplings along both banks of the Sagardi canal in Barishal city on 13 July 2026, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman said people must protect their own environment, warning that "we will be the ones who suffer" if they do not.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman urged people to look after newly planted saplings every day, as they would a newborn child, and said widespread tree planting was essential to cope with climate change.
EnvironmentOn 13 July 2026 Prime Minister Tarique Rahman opened a tree-planting programme on the bank of the newly dug Sharikal-Batajor canal in Gournadi, Barishal, where 2,500 saplings were to be planted that day.
Navy chief Admiral M Nazmul Hassan has launched the Bangladesh Navy's Tree Plantation Campaign-2026 as part of the government's 25 crore tree drive.
Every government primary school must plant five saplings on 15 July, in step with the Prime Minister's tree planting that day.
EnvironmentA Peking University-led study in Geophysical Research Letters found that China's planted forests increased their leaf area 65.8 per cent faster than natural forests, an edge that fades after about 40 years; a 2025 study found young natural forests store carbon faster.
EnvironmentOpening the 2026 Environment Fair and National Tree Fair in Dhaka on 9 July 2026, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman urged families to plant a tree for every child born, and said the government planned to plant 25 crore trees in five years.
EnvironmentOpening the National Tree Plantation Campaign and Tree Fair on 9 July 2026, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman said Dhaka, ranked the third least liveable city in the world, must be made liveable, and urged people not to plant harmful trees such as eucalyptus.
Md Rakibul Amin, owner of Gardening Bangladesh, is being honoured in the National Tree Planting Award 2025 for a decade of greening Dhaka's rooftops, balconies and offices.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has renewed the government's pledge to build a green, climate-resilient Bangladesh, giving development and conservation equal importance.
Saplings planted under the government's 250 million tree programme will be monitored by satellite, GIS, remote sensing and drones, Environment Minister Abdul Awal Mintoo said.
A group of young football fans turned World Cup fervour into a tree-planting drive, planting and distributing 500 native saplings in Kouri village of Harirampur, Manikganj.
State Minister Mir Shahe Alam said Bogura had been neglected for 20 years as he opened tree planting along the re-excavated Barail-Bakson canal in Shibganj.
