EnvironmentAt a special meeting on 2 July 2026, Dhaka South City Corporation decided to form a high-level committee to draw up a tree-planting master plan for its 10 zones, and to coordinate with RAJUK and the fire service on earthquake risk.
BRAC held a tree-planting programme on the Pasur river bank in Mongla to build coastal people's climate resilience and protection from disasters.
AgrotechA Tree Monitoring App using GPS and GIS was being built to track whether saplings planted under the One Child, One Tree programme and the National Green Mission survive, budget documents showed in early July 2026.
A couple in Narayanganj marked their daughter's second birthday by donating blood and planting trees rather than holding a lavish celebration.
AgribusinessOn 29 June 2026, Dhaka North City Corporation administrator Md Shafiqul Islam Khan said 29 canals under the corporation, including Muslim Bazar canal, would be freed from illegal occupation in phases on the Prime Minister's instructions. He announced it while opening a tree-planting drive that is part of a five-lakh-tree programme.
EnvironmentLaunching a tree-planting drive in more than 29,000 secondary institutions on 29 June 2026, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman told the story of neem trees on the plain of Arafat and asked students to plant at least one tree a year.
EnvironmentBangladesh's Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education said in a letter of 27 June 2026 that every government and MPO-listed secondary institution had received a Tk 5,000 climate grant to plant trees under the "One Child, One Tree" programme, due to be inaugurated on 29 June.
The upazila administration in Pangsha, Rajbari, has ordered four students who skipped school to swim in a pond to plant 200 saplings each, 800 in all.
A tree-planting and sapling distribution programme with the local government minister in Kaliganj, Gazipur, was postponed after a controversy over a name on the invitation card.
EnvironmentThe Bangladesh Air Force said on 16 June 2026, in an ISPR press release, that its helicopters would drop seed balls over coastal areas and remote parts of the Chattogram Hill Tracts under its Tree Plantation Programme 2026.
EnvironmentAmid criticism over soil removed from beneath Padma rail bridge pillars in Fatullah, Narayanganj, minister Sheikh Rabiul Alam said on 16 June 2026 that the cutting had been stopped and trees would be planted there.
Dhaka South City Corporation administrator Md Abdus Salam has declared a second war against climate change, with a plan to plant three lakh trees in the city corporation area over five years.
A programme to plant 25 crore trees across the country over the next five years will create about 3.5 lakh direct and indirect green jobs, the finance minister said in his budget speech.
