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 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.

April 30, 2022
April 30, 2022

Elephant trapped in muddy swamp, rescued after 16 hours

An elephant calf which got trapped in a muddy swamp has been rescued by locals in collaboration with forest officials after 16 hours.

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.

May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020

Miscreants destroy 10,000 saplings of forest department at Moheskhali range

Miscreants destroy around 10,000 saplings belonging to the forest department at Moheskhali range of Coastal Forest Department.

March 13, 2019
March 13, 2019

Manpura forests in peril

Felling of trees by “influential people” is damaging the biodiversity of Bhola's Manpura Island, making it prone to natural disasters.

December 9, 2017
December 9, 2017

Sundarbans’ forest staff getting risk allowance

Finally, the forest department employees who safeguard the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans, have been brought under risk allowance. The financial benefit will be equivalent of the 30 percent of their basic salaries.

August 8, 2016
August 8, 2016

2 pythons rescued in Bagerhat

Wildlife team of forest department rescues two pythons from two separate areas in Bagerhat and frees them to the Sundarbans.

June 2, 2016
June 2, 2016

Over 4,000 birds rescued in Bagerhat

The forest department rescue more than 4,000 birds of different species from a depot in Kachua upazila of Bagerhat today.

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