FisheriesA 90-kilogram baghair (goonch catfish) netted in the Brahmaputra at Chilmari, Kurigram, was cut up and sold at Tk 1,500 a kilogram, although the species is critically endangered on the IUCN list and catching it is a punishable offence.
FisheriesGoonch catfish (baghair) of 30 to 100 kg are taken from the Jamuna on the Madarganj-Sariakandi border and sold almost daily at Balijuri bazar for Tk 1,000 to 1,500 a kg, though the species is protected as critically endangered.
Catching and selling the species is banned under the Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act 2012, yet the fish was auctioned for about Tk 90,000 and cut up at Chairman Ghat; the district fisheries officer says the fisheries law itself does not bar it.
A case has been filed under the Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act 2026; the ten surviving animals were released into forest at Alutila.
EnvironmentOn 19 July 2026 Gono Bishwabidyalay student Tahmid Hasan described in Jagonews24 a family of white-breasted waterhens (dahuk) raising chicks in an abandoned pond behind his house; the bird is a common resident whose village ponds are disappearing.
EnvironmentMost snakes in Bangladesh are not venomous and avoid people, a July 2026 column argued in urging people not to kill them. A snakebite needs a hospital, not a healer, and the wildlife law's penalty depends on which schedule an animal is listed in.
EnvironmentAn injured Bengal slow loris, an endangered primate, was rescued from Shantipur in Gumti union of Khagrachhari's Matiranga upazila on 5 May 2026 and treated at an animal hospital the next day; the Forest Department said it would be released once it recovered.
EnvironmentIn April 2026 residents of Sadarpur in Faridpur said about 50 to 60 large monitor lizards had lived for some 24 years by a canal next to the upazila market, eating its waste without harming people or poultry; officials promised to protect them.
EnvironmentOn World Wildlife Day, 3 March 2026, the birds, squirrels, bats and small reptiles living around Bangladeshi homes were losing trees, water and nesting places to concrete; native trees, clean water, fewer pesticides, free birds and calls to the Forest Department in place of home rescue help protect them.
EnvironmentOn 16 February 2025 the Forest Department rescued 31 wild animals of ten species from an unlicensed mini zoo inside the Modern Fantasy Kingdom park at Kolukathi in Naria, Shariatpur.
CropsOn 3 February 2025 a wildlife inspector of the Forest Department filed a case in Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate Court-2 against two content creators over videos of slaughtering and roasting pond herons and lesser whistling ducks. The court issued summonses.
EnvironmentA mobile court in Rajshahi jailed a man for three days on 28 January 2025 after he was caught on a Padma char with four dead common teal, a protected migratory duck; a seized current net was burnt.
