Locals in Sitakunda, Chattogram, say a young man who climbed a 30-foot tree at night and shouted for hours fell silent when they called the azan and was then brought down.
Each of the more than 11,000 new MBBS students for 2025-26 will plant a tree on 3 May, the day of their orientation, under the "One student, one tree" programme.
A timber racket is clearing around 200 acres of natural forest in remote Chaikkhyang on the Alikadam-Thanchi border, cutting hills for roads and drying up the streams Mro villages depend on.
With storms and rain across the country, water can collect in potted plants on balconies, and some houseplants cannot tolerate it.
EnvironmentRussian House in Dhaka planted saplings at Dhanmondi Lake on 24 April 2026 in memory of Soviet soldiers and citizens lost in the Second World War, and the DSCC administrator cited plans for 25 crore and 3 lakh trees.
Krishnachura trees flowering by the Gulshan-Hatirjheel lake have become a place for busy city dwellers to stop, as the trees grow scarcer in Dhaka.
Plants need a balanced diet of major nutrients and micronutrients, and correcting deficiencies can raise both the quantity and quality of the harvest.
A medicinal garden at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka holds some 41 species of healing plants for teaching and research.
Following a review hearing, the High Court has ruled that felling trees in Dhaka and other towns and along roads anywhere in Bangladesh, including for government projects, requires approval from expert committees.
FruitsAs winter set in at the end of December 2025, a falling number of date palms and tappers meant West Bengal could not get enough date palm sap, and good date palm jaggery was scarce.
Madaripur Horticulture Centre has built a collection of 200 cactus species in two years and is raising low-cost seedlings for plant lovers.
Dhaka North City Corporation has begun a Miyawaki urban forest of about 14,000 saplings on a green belt at Uttara Diabari.
AgribusinessIn November 2025 more than a hundred nurseries along the riverbank in Uttara's sectors 15 and 16 were busy with the winter flower season, and their owners said 40 to 50 per cent of buyers were rooftop gardeners.
