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.
Mismanagement and neglect at Gazipur Safari Park in Sreepur have seen animal after animal die or go missing, uncollected lease money and falling visitor numbers.
State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Sultan Salauddin Tuku said Rajshahi Central Park and Zoo would be modernised, with an expert team to assess turning it into a safari-style park.
BangladeshThree male blue peacocks fanned their trains together at the Bangladesh National Zoo in Mirpur, Dhaka, on 26 June 2026, drawing crowds who gathered to photograph the courtship display.
The National Zoo in Mirpur has placed orders for a leopard, wildebeest and waterbirds, due before Eid-ul-Azha, while it prepares for large Eid-ul-Fitr crowds.
The lioness that got out of its cage at the National Zoo in Mirpur, Dhaka, has been tranquilised and returned safely, and a two-member committee is investigating.
Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter said caring for the animals at the National Zoo is a moral duty and called for endangered species to be conserved.
On World Animal Day, a look at how visitors at Dhaka's Mirpur zoo torment caged animals and why that must stop.
A six-year-old liger, rescued from smugglers as a sick cub, is drawing visitors to Ban Bilas Zoo in Khulna Cantonment.
Thirty-three Burmese rock python hatchlings born in an incubator at Chattogram Zoo have been released into the Hazarikhil sanctuary in Fatikchhari.
The Wildlife Crime Control Unit raided the Monorama mini zoo on the Meherpur border and rescued 27 wild animals.
The mini zoo at Bandarban's Meghla tourist spot has been closed permanently by court order, and its wild animals are being moved to Dulahazara Safari Park.
Wildlife officials are moving a sick bear and other animals from the mini zoo in Mymensingh's Zainul Abedin park to Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur.
