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.
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.
Sundarbans fire: Forest dept suspends 3 employees
The Forest Department suspends its three employees for their negligence in duties over the recent fire incidents in the Sundarbans in Sharankhola upazila.
Criminals busy making it barren
A few gangs are plundering trees from the reserve forest at Gangamati near Kuakata of Patuakhali.
HC upholds forest gobbler Gani’s jail term
The High Court upholds a lower court verdict that jailed former chief conservator of forest (CCF) Osman Gani for 12 years for amassing wealth illegally and concealing information in his wealth statement submitted to the ACC.
100 turtles seized in Dhaka, 3 traders jailed
Around 100 turtles seized by the members of Rapid Action Battalion and the officials of Bangladesh Forest Department in Shakhari Bazar of Old Dhaka.
Forest department issues special alert in Sundarbans
The forest department has issued a special alert in the Sundarbans following killing of six ‘tiger poachers’ in a ‘gunfight’ with police and recovery of three tiger skins from the world’s largest mangrove earlier this month.
