Sundarbans
Sundarbans44 held for illegal fishing in Sundarbans
Acting on a tip-off, a forest department team nabbed the fishermen on Monday night as they were gearing up to catch fish, and seized their four trawlers
Koyra flood control embankment built with sand from Sundarbans
Sand is being used instead of soil to repair an embankment in Koyra upazila of Khulna in a bid to control the floods in the area permanently. The sand is being extracted from a river near the ...
Sundarbans set to reopen for tourists 1 Sept
After nearly five months of closure due to the Covid restrictions, the forest department is reopening the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest and a Unesco World Heritage Site, on 1 ...
Decision on Sundarbans World Heritage status next year
Tian Xuejun called on Bangladesh to submit SEA, EIA and impact of industries on the World Heritage Site reports, to be completed within August following the operational guidelines of the World ...
UNESCO decision on Sundarbans deferred until July 2022
The environment, forest and climate change ministry of Bangladesh submitted a progress report, stating that the coronavirus pandemic has delayed meeting full conditions set by the 43th session
Integrated and sustainable steps required to protect Sundarbans
Although the government has formed a committee, the organisation has questioned its neutrality. Most of the members of this committee are former bureaucrats of the ministry
Sundarbans
Conditions to be followed to uphold world heritage status
The UNESCO-formed reactive monitoring mission has recommended the Bangladesh government halt construction of the Rampal thermal power plant and stop allowing new industries at the close vicinity of ...
World Environment Day
Road map needed for the ecosystem
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, forests in Bangladesh decline at a rate of 2.6 per cent, double than that of the average rate globally. According to ...
Sundarbans submerged after Cyclone Yaas
The Forest department said this year Cyclone Yaas submerged the largest area of Sundarbans in the last 14 years.
Cyclone Yaas
Probe bodies formed to assess Sundarbans' damages
The government has formed four probe bodies to assess the damages to the Sundarbans caused by cyclone Yaas—formed in Bay of Bengal and battered the country’s coastal regions and the eastern India on ...
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