At least 40 wild Siamese crocodiles live in the Cardamom Mountains wetland; Fauna and Flora, running a breeding centre since 2011, has released 246 crocodiles into rivers.
EnvironmentTwo foals born in August at a steppe sanctuary mark a milestone for the Altyn Dala project, which is restoring 75,000 square kilometres of overgrazed grassland.
EnvironmentHowrah district in West Bengal has fishing cats, jungle cats, civets, porcupines and monitor lizards but no social forestry range; environmental activists want a protected or community forest and a rescue centre.
Seven of nine radio-collared lorises released in the park died within a short time; deforestation is pushing the endangered nocturnal primate into villages, where roads, railway lines and power lines kill it.
EnvironmentOn the morning of 28 July 2026 the forest department rescued a python nearly 10 feet long beside a settlement at Char Phulbari in Ulipur, Kurigram, and said it would go to Rangpur Zoo after health checks.
FisheriesOn 15 July 2026 a python about 8 feet long and weighing 11 kg was caught in fishermen's net in Kalmakanda, Netrokona; the next day the Forest Department rescued it and released it in the Kanthalbari forest near the Lengura border.
EnvironmentSitesh Ranjan Deb, founder chairman of the Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation in Sreemangal and a familiar face of the country's wildlife-conservation movement, died at his home on 14 July 2026. He was 75.
EnvironmentAn exhausted Himalayan griffon vulture, a rare winter migrant, was rescued from Sirajganj town on 13 December 2025 by a local bird protection group after it fell to the ground on the Jamuna chars. It is being fed and treated before being handed to wildlife officials.
EnvironmentA December 2025 Jagonews24 feature said the woodpecker's long tongue, looped around the skull, works like a seat belt; research partly supports this, and the IUCN Bangladesh assessment lists no woodpecker as threatened, though large forest species are under pressure.
EnvironmentA Jagonews24 feature of 14 September 2023 described the tuntuni, the tiny leaf-stitching bird of Bengali folk tales, and voiced concern that it was seen less often. Bangladesh's 2015 Red List rated the common tailorbird Least Concern.
