Sundarbans

Stop disturbing the Sundarbans!

Restrain traffic of ships through the forest

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If you are planning an adventurous retreat in the woods, here are seven most beautiful forests around the world.

Tiger visits forest office in Sundarbans

Once again, a wild tiger has been seen roaming leisurely on the premises of a forest department office in the Sundarbans. 

Bagh Bidhoba

Sonamoni! No prefix, no suffix, that is her name. It signifies the golden pearl of the eye.

‘In the Forest of the Night’: Sundarban’s beauty reinterpreted

Jasmin’s fascinating art work in this exhibition displays the rich colours of the flora of the lush mangrove forest of the Sundarbans, located in the Bay of Bengal.

Making Khulna a green and fair climate city

We can make the southwestern part of Bangladesh one of the world's foremost places to implement nature-based solutions (NbS).

The books you will meet at Dhaka Art Summit 2023

For those who are especially interested in literature in book form, the first two floors of the exhibition hold treasures. 

Revisiting German and Bengali folklore in ‘Myth Bridge’

Here, Rapunzel, Hercules, Bon Bibi, and King Solomon might be having a gala time over tea, or fighting their own battles.

Tiger census: installation of cameras begins in Sundarbans

The Forest Department has started setting up a total of 1,330 cameras at 665 spots in the Sundarbans to count tigers, deer and pigs.

April 30, 2022
April 30, 2022

Eid holiday of Sundarbans forest employees cancelled

Forest Department has cancelled the Eid holiday of its staff, including the officials and rangers, working in the Sundarbans.

April 6, 2022
April 6, 2022

New tiger census in the Sundarbans?

The government has undertaken a plan to conduct a survey on Royal Bengal Tigers' food and habitat in the Bangladesh segment of the Sundarbans.

April 4, 2022
April 4, 2022

Sundarbans has 114 tigers at present: Environment Minister

According to the latest survey, there are 114 tigers in the Sundarbans, Shahab Uddin, environment, forests and climate change minister, told the parliament today.

April 3, 2022
April 3, 2022

Bangladeshi photojournalist chronicles Ukrainians in flight

Upon his arrival in the small town of Chop, located in western Ukraine, Ismail Ferdous witnessed first-hand the devastating consequences of war.

June 22, 2020
June 22, 2020

3 held for trying to fish with poison in the Sundarbans

Three fishermen were arrested on Saturday while they were trying to fish using poison in the Pashur River in the Sundarbans.

June 4, 2020
June 4, 2020

Bangladesh will survive if Sundarbans survives, says TIB

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today said Bangladesh will survive only if Sundarbans survives and called for effective implementation of constitutional and legal obligations, especially environmental laws for the protection the forest.

October 15, 2019
October 15, 2019

5 ‘robbers’ killed in Khulna, Habiganj ‘gunfights’

Five suspected robbers are killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in the Sundarbans area of Khulna and Habiganj districts.

August 28, 2019
August 28, 2019

Sundarbans tigress wasn’t killed by poachers: Investigators

A tigress, found dead in Sundarbans East Zone on August 20, was not killed by poachers, investigators have confirmed.

July 10, 2019
July 10, 2019

‘Govt to provide full support to assess the state of Sundarbans’

Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury says that government would provide full support to the Reactive Monitoring mission of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and World Heritage Committee to further assessment of the state of Sundarbans.

June 14, 2019
June 14, 2019

Unesco labels Sundarbans ‘World Heritage in Danger’

The World Heritage Centre of Unesco has declared largest mangrove forest on earth, the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, as a “World Heritage in Danger” site.

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