Forest

Forest
The district administration has leased forest department land to shipbuilding industries. The picture is taken recently from Tulatuli area of Sitakunda

Shipbreaking factories in Sitakunda Coastal forest land leased 'tactfully' two yrs after initial failure

Chattogram district administration has leased five acres of forest land to the owner of the same company which failed to take the lease two years ago

Firefighters operate at the site of a wildfire in Pumarejo de Tera near Zamora, northern Spain, on 18 June 2022.

Spain wildfire resumes, threatening natural park

A major wildfire in eastern Spain that has destroyed vast swathes of land flared up again Friday despite heavy rainfall, threatening to spread to a nearby natural park

A firefighter vehicle drives on a road past flames at a wildfire near Belin-Beliet, southwestern France, overnight on 11 August, 2022

2022 sees record Europe wildfire destruction: EU

Europe's blistering summer may not be over yet but 2022 is already breaking records, with nearly 660,000 hectares ravaged since January, according to the EU's satellite monitoring service

6000 acres of forest land occupied

Dinajpur forest department 6000 acres of forest land occupied

There are names of Awami League, BNP and Jatiya Party leaders in the list of the illegal occupants

People watch as smoke rises from a wildfire in Venda do Pinheiro in Mafra, Portugal, on 31 July 2022

Portugal, France battle big forest fires as mercury soars

Residents tried to slow the advance of the flames by hosing their gardens, as the flames also swept through neighbouring forests, according to television images

This file photo taken on 21 December 21, 2014 shows a Royal Bengal Tiger pausing as it walks through a jungle clearing in Kaziranga National Park, some 280kms east of Guwahati.

Wild tiger numbers higher than previously thought

There are thought to be between 3,726 and 5,578 wild tigers, 40 percent more than at the last assessment in 2015

A photo shows a forest fire in Louchats, south-western France, on 17 July, 2022

France on alert as forest fires rage in scorching southwest Europe

France was on high alert on Monday as the peak of a punishing heat wave gripped the country, while wildfires raging in parts of southwest Europe showed no sign of abating

A firefighter tackles a forest fire around the village of Eiriz in Baiao, north of Portugal, on 15 July, 2022

Forest fires rage in scorching southwest Europe

Southwest Europe endured a sixth day of a summer heatwave on Saturday that has triggered devastating forest fires as parts of the continent braced for new temperature records early next week

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Rondonia State, Brazil 28 September 2021

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon hits record for first half of 2022

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first six months of the year, as an area five times the size of New York City was destroyed. From January to June, 3,988 ...

Climate change negatively impacts bumble bees: Study

Climate change negatively impacts bumble bees: Study

Bumble bees are important pollinators for wild plants and for the crops humans rely on for food

Eucalyptus trees along a road in Bogura. Eucalyptus is not an autochthonous tree species of Bangladesh and is considered as harmful for the local plantation and ecology

Plantations of exotic trees might cause problems for local wildlife

Eucalyptus plantation edge effects radiate up to 800 metres into the interior of nearby Amazonian forests, find scientists at the University of Bristol and the Federal University of Western Para, in ...

Village Tiger Response Team holds the python at Barguna forest

Rescued python released into Barguna forest

A python rescued at Ruhita village in Patharghata upazila in Barguna district was released into a forest on Friday afternoon

Satchhari forest

Fungi-based meat alternatives to help save Earth's forests

This new analysis by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has been published in Nature.

A tree burns during a wildfire near the village of Taastaakh in the region of Yakutia, Russia August 11, 2021.

Over 250,000 square kilometers of forest lost in 2021

The causes of the reduction in forest cover include human and natural causes, as well as deforestation, wildfires and other destruction

Bricks being burnt in a brick kiln near a forest in Kaukhali upazila of Rangamati. Photo taken from Betbunia Sugarmill area recently.

Brick factories running with no clearance in Rangamati

They got stay-orders from the High Court by submitting forged environmental clearance certificates. Later, those stay-orders were dismissed when the issue was pointed out to the court.

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