forest department

Why are we so intent on killing forests?

Chattogram district administration must answer for felling 5,000 trees

The mangroves are there for a reason

Why are we destroying our last line of defence against natural calamities?

Birds long dead, money meant for their feed ‘embezzled’

Forest department officials have shown dead exotic birds of an aviary in Chattogram as alive in documents allegedly for six years embezzling the money meant for bird feed.

Stop the onslaught on Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary

Why has the Forest Department allowed it?

Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary: UP chairman’s men plundering it for yrs

For years, under the nose of the Forest Department and the local administration, a syndicate led by a local union parishad chairman has been razing hillocks and tearing down trees at Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram’s Lohagara upazila.

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.

No Christmas for them

Lobbing Sumer (40) is the head of a six-member family at Doluchhara punjee in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila. During the last 13 years serving as the Khasi punjee (indigenous village) chief, he had to manage the expenses of seven cases filed by the forest department against the members of their community.

Who wants a piece of forest?

Plans to build a prison on forestland show that the country is in environmental free-fall

Nothing justifies destroying a forest

The move to build a prison on forestland is both illegal and impractical

June 8, 2023
June 8, 2023

Why are we so intent on killing forests?

Chattogram district administration must answer for felling 5,000 trees

May 20, 2023
May 20, 2023

The mangroves are there for a reason

Why are we destroying our last line of defence against natural calamities?

April 7, 2023
April 7, 2023

Birds long dead, money meant for their feed ‘embezzled’

Forest department officials have shown dead exotic birds of an aviary in Chattogram as alive in documents allegedly for six years embezzling the money meant for bird feed.

January 15, 2023
January 15, 2023

Stop the onslaught on Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary

Why has the Forest Department allowed it?

January 14, 2023
January 14, 2023

Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary: UP chairman’s men plundering it for yrs

For years, under the nose of the Forest Department and the local administration, a syndicate led by a local union parishad chairman has been razing hillocks and tearing down trees at Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram’s Lohagara upazila.

January 1, 2023
January 1, 2023

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.

December 25, 2022
December 25, 2022

No Christmas for them

Lobbing Sumer (40) is the head of a six-member family at Doluchhara punjee in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila. During the last 13 years serving as the Khasi punjee (indigenous village) chief, he had to manage the expenses of seven cases filed by the forest department against the members of their community.

October 2, 2022
October 2, 2022

Who wants a piece of forest?

Plans to build a prison on forestland show that the country is in environmental free-fall

September 18, 2022
September 18, 2022

Nothing justifies destroying a forest

The move to build a prison on forestland is both illegal and impractical

May 25, 2022
May 25, 2022

Back to Green: 4 lakh trees planted on 400 acres of recovered forestland

The forest department has reforested a total of 400 acres of protected forestland -- which was grabbed by locals in Kodolpur area of Chattogram’s Raozan upazila -- bringing a positive change for the region’s biodiversity.