LivestockResearchers at the Central University of Jammu found 34 zones where pastoral livestock routes run close to protected areas, raising the risk of foot-and-mouth disease reaching hangul, markhor and other wild ungulates.
EnvironmentThe smooth-coated otter of Bengali nursery rhymes has almost disappeared from the country's rivers, beels and haors. Experts blame lost wetland habitat, the false belief that otters empty fish ponds, and killing for their skins.
EnvironmentA leopard that crossed from India injured three people, a woman among them, at the Amjhol border in Hatibandha, Lalmonirhat; a BGB drone found it in a border thicket at midnight, and two Forest Department teams have arrived.
EnvironmentAbout a thousand monkeys in Nayachar and Char Mugaria, Madaripur, are entering homes for food since the government's food allocation stopped in June 2025; the social forestry office has asked for funds but not received them.
LivestockBetween 5% and 10% of the kudu at Addo Elephant National Park are lame, red hartebeest and eland show signs, and vets are watching the park's fenced buffalo herds closely.
EnvironmentPugmarks stretching about half a kilometre were found on a char of the Bhola river at Sonatala village in Sharankhola, Bagerhat, on Monday morning; the Forest Department says the tiger swam over from the Sundarbans and went back, but has told villagers to stay alert.
EnvironmentKittens caught in Shibpur, Narsingdi, in March and August that villagers took for leopard cubs have been confirmed by wildlife experts as rare leopard cats; their survival in a crowded district far from the Sundarbans and the hill forests is a hopeful sign.
EnvironmentA barking deer turned jet black by melanism has been seen again at Dow Hill in Darjeeling's Kurseong forest division, after first being photographed in January; forest officials say about one deer in a million shows such a change.
OpinionIn an Ajker Patrika column, Dr Bibhuti Bhushan Mitra links the deaths of 11 zebras, a tiger, a lioness and elephants at Gazipur Safari Park to poor oversight, late diagnosis, malnutrition and a lack of quarantine and experienced vets. The views are the writer's own.
EnvironmentAn endangered Bengal slow loris died on an uninsulated power line in Kachurgul village, Juri, where two others died earlier; researchers want insulated wiring made compulsory where wildlife moves.
An African rhinoceros alone since 2013, a hamadryas baboon, a kangaroo and seven more animals at the National Zoo in Mirpur have no mate of their own species, in pictures by Prothom Alo's Mir Hossain.
Out to watch foxes in Thakurgaon, Professor Tuhin Wadud saw a jungle cat beside a riverside thicket and sugarcane field; photographer Rezaul Hafiz Rahi photographed one for the first time.
EnvironmentResorts and cottages built by cutting hills and forest in Moulvibazar now number about 200, most with no clear approval on record; in August and September pythons, cobras, fishing cats and other animals left Lawachara for nearby villages.
