EnvironmentWriting in Desh Rupantor, Prof. Dr A N M Aminur Rahman describes the 'laltu', or red avadavat, breeding in the kans fields by the Balu river, and notes that catching and selling wild birds is a crime in Bangladesh.
EnvironmentShirui, in Manipur's Ukhrul hills, banned hunting from 2024 to 2026; a former hunter and a local conservationist have since recorded 15 mammal and 321 bird species, and the village has extended the ban for three more years.
EnvironmentOnly three of the 14 deer once kept at Tengragiri Eco Park in Taltali, Barguna, remain. Their enclosure is broken, and the Forest Department has no explanation for what happened to the other 11.
EnvironmentThe three-year-old tigress flown from Bihar's Valmiki Tiger Reserve to Buxa in north Bengal about 20 days ago has covered some 390 square kilometres in three weeks and is heading for Assam's Raimona Tiger Reserve, the Assam forest department says.
EnvironmentThousands of birds settle every afternoon in the trees around Lakshmipur's deputy commissioner's office, courts and police offices in Jhumur; the district administration has hung more than a hundred nests for them and plans more.
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.
EnvironmentThe Junnar forest division in Pune's sugarcane belt, where leopard attacks killed 56 people between 2000 and 2025, is testing reversible immunocontraception as a non-lethal way to manage leopard numbers.
GalleryBird lovers in Pabna rescued 14 lesser whistling ducks a poultry seller was carrying in a sack to sell and released them on a lake at Pabna University of Science and Technology.
EnvironmentIn a signed commentary, Wildlife Trust of India chief ecologist Samir Kumar Sinha argues that the move of tigress T138 from Bihar's Valmiki reserve to Buxa in West Bengal shows how a restored reserve can restock another, if prey, corridors and local communities are looked after.
OpinionIn a Sarabangla column, National University student Tanzid Shuvro says Bangladesh's eco-parks are conservation areas on paper, yet in practice the money goes on lakes, watchtowers and ticket counters.
EnvironmentA climate model of the rare Himalayan river bird finds suitable conditions may expand along mid-elevation rivers, but scientists warn that boulder and sand mining, garbage and dogs are degrading its breeding grounds.
EnvironmentIn West Bengal's first tiger reintroduction, a three-year-old tigress flown from Valmiki in Bihar was given an open path to the Buxa forest within two days; expert Qamar Qureshi says better prey density and security made a hard release possible.
EnvironmentThe radio collar fitted to a three-year-old tigress caught in Bihar for release in West Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve came off within minutes, and she had to be sedated twice in two days.
