forest department

Stop ravaging our reserve forests

Government must not allow anyone to occupy or destroy forestland

With every forest razed, a little bit of Bangladesh dies too

Worrying reports about natural degradation question the government’s sincerity

Kuakata Beach / 75,000 trees lost to erosion every year

There was a time when coconut, palm, tamarisk, and mangrove trees swayed with the winds on Kuakata Beach. Their tall trunks guarded the shore-dwellers against the wrath of natural calamities.

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.

October 14, 2023
October 14, 2023

Stop ravaging our reserve forests

Government must not allow anyone to occupy or destroy forestland

July 20, 2023
July 20, 2023

With every forest razed, a little bit of Bangladesh dies too

Worrying reports about natural degradation question the government’s sincerity

July 10, 2023
July 10, 2023

75,000 trees lost to erosion every year

There was a time when coconut, palm, tamarisk, and mangrove trees swayed with the winds on Kuakata Beach. Their tall trunks guarded the shore-dwellers against the wrath of natural calamities.

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.

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