Sundarbans

Sundarbans
Sundarbans

Ban on entering Sundarbans Nearly 200,000 families suffering from financial hardship

Woodcutters, honey collectors, fishermen and others in seven districts -- Khulna, Satkhira, Bagerhat, Pirojpur, Barguna, Jhalakathi and Patuakhali -- along the Sundarbans have been passing idle time ...

Fishing in Sundarbans

Bangladesh bans fishing in Sundarbans for 3 months

Usually the ban remains in force from 1 July to 31 August

Planning Minister MA Mannan and USAID Deputy Administrator for policy and programming, Isobel Coleman, lunches the five-year project at a Dhaka hotel on 10 May 2022

USAID launches project to protect Sundarbans, Sylhet forests

As a result of the ‘Protibesh’ project, Bangladesh will be able to combat the effects of climate change, protect the country’s critical natural sources and build resilience to climate induced natural ...

A Royal Bengal Tiger

People of Sharankhola in fear after spotting a tiger in the village

The residents of Khejurbaria under Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat are literally living in fear for their lives as a Royal Bengal Tiger was spotted lying down inside a fish enclosure in the village

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah addresses a public rally, in Siliguri on 5 May 2022

Bangladesh-India border Amit Shah inaugurates 3 floating border posts in Sundarbans areas

The number of floating BOPs has been increased to enhance the surveillance in the inaccessible areas of Sunderbans of West Bengal

Visiting Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt pays a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence, Gonobhaban, in Dhaka on 25 April 2022

Govt working to further strengthen country’s democracy: PM Hasina

The Norwegian minister said that the existing cooperation between Bangladesh and Norway will further be strengthened in future

A Royal Bengal Tiger at the Sundarbans

Princess of Denmark to visit Sundarbans, forest closed to tourists for two days

Crown Princess Mary Elizabeth Donaldson is to visit Shyamnagar in Satkhira and the Sundarbans and so the West Sundarban Satkhira range has been closed to tourists on Tuesday and Wednesday

Danish Crown Prince Mary Elizabeth

Danish Crown Princess to meet PM Hasina, visit Rohingya camps

She is scheduled to reach Cox’s Bazar at around 5:00pm today and will join a briefing by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) on Tuesday morning

Students visiting ancient ruins in Rezakpur recently.

Archeological excavation Ancient ruins near the Sundarbans

Ruins of human settlements as well as a temple-like structure have been found at Rezakpur village in Kapilmuni union of Khulna’s Paikgacha Upazila

State secretary and special envoy for international climate policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Jennifer Morgan (C) talks to media

Shift from fossil fuel to renewable energy: German special envoy

State secretary and special envoy for international climate policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Jennifer Morgan, has said that scaling up renewables like solar energy also leads to multiple ...

This handout photo taken on 11 April 2018 and released by the Bangladesh Forest Department shows a Bengal tiger walking through the forest in Sarankhola, in the southwestern Bagerhat district. The number of wild tigers in Bangladesh`s Sundarbans area has increased for the first time in 15 years after a major crackdown against poachers in the world`s largest mangrove forest, officials said on 22 May 2019.

Now 114 tigers in Sundarbans: Minister

According to a survey of 2018, there are currently 114 tigers in the Sundarbans. Using camera trapping method, 106 tigers were found in the Sundarbans in 2015

A Royal Bengal Tiger at the Sundarbans

Tiger census in Sundarbans begins in April

Along with tigers, the government will also enumerate deer and pigs in the delta under the ‘Sundarbans Tiger Conservation Project’ estimated to cost Tk 35.93 crore

Rescued saltwater crocodile

Rescued crocodile released back in Sundarbans river

The Forest Department on Tuesday rescued a saltwater crocodile from a pond in Rampal of Bagerhat and released it back into the wild in the Sundarbans

Editorial

Natural forests: No development by destroying life and environment

On the occasion of International Forest Day, a series of reports on forest and biodiversity of Bangladesh has been published in Prothom Alo. The data that has emerged in these reports is very worrying

A herd of deer in the Sundarbans

International Day of Forests Sundarbans shrinking gradually

Forestland of an area equal to 350 football fields is vanishing from the Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans every year

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