forest department
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.
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.
Nothing justifies destroying a forest
The move to build a prison on forestland is both illegal and impractical
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Special security measures at Sundarbans’ Chandpai Range
Fourth fire incident in barely four weeks’ time at Chandpai Range in Sundarbans prompts Forest Department to put in place a number of special security measures there.
