hill cutting

We need a fresh drive to protect environment

Government must push through vital measures for results

Why this constant onslaught on nature?

Razing of hills in Bandarban and elsewhere must stop

Save Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary from encroachers

Authorities must take action against those destroying forests

Scale up climate change adaptation as soon as possible

While Bangladesh has been doing quite well in adapting to climate change, there is still a long way to go with not much time to waste. Serious actions need to be taken urgently to boost the country’s resilience.

Stop the onslaught on Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary

Why has the Forest Department allowed it?

Onslaught on Tangail hillocks

The landscape and ecosystem in Tangail are under threat as “influential people” are flattening hillocks, which are a geological feature of parts of the district.

Hill Cutting in Bandarban: 3 labourers killed in landslide

Three labourers, including a woman, were killed in a landslide while cutting a hill to dig a drain in Ghumdhum area of Naikhongchhari upazila yesterday.

Hills lost to housing

Uttaran cooperative housing society, with powerful people as its members, has flattened around 150 acres of hilly land and cut down thousands of trees in Kolatoli of Cox's Bazar town for its housing estate.

Deaths in hills: Why and how

Hill cutting for illegal establishments is one of the key reasons behind the recent series of landslides in Rangamati, the worst in a decade that killed at least 120 people. Even after the landslides, many such dangerous and risky establishments have been found in the district.

July 20, 2015
July 20, 2015

Cases filed over Ctg landslide, wall collapse

Police file case and arrest two people in connection to the landslide that killed three children in Chittagong city.

June 1, 2015
June 1, 2015

2 buried while cutting hill in Ctg

Two workers are killed and another injured as a chunk of earth fell on them while they were cutting hill in Chittagong.

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