Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju has said the Royal Bengal Tigers of the Sundarbans are back from their foreign tour.In 2015, the minister, while speaking at an International Tiger Conservation Day meet, had said the depleting number of…
Dhaka – A two-day international conference of 13th Regional Steering Committee meeting of environmental group Mangroves For the Future (MFF) began at Sayeman Beach Resort in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday, UNB news agency reported. Environment and Forests Ministry and Mangroves…
Corbett – A man-eating tigress that unleashed terror on those living at the Corbett reserve forests in Uttarakhand was shot dead and paraded by triumphant villagers for nearly three hours on Thursday.
Dhaka – Rampal coal plant poses a ‘serious threat’ to a key ecosystem for Bengal tigers and must be cancelled, says the UN world heritage body The UN’s world heritage body has made an urgent intervention to stop the construction…
Dhaka – Police foiled a procession of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Port near Mowchak area in the capital on Tuesday, UNB news agency reported.
Peru’s environmental agency is investigating the deaths of some 10,000 frogs whose bodies have been found in a river in the south of the country., reports BBC. A campaign group says pollution in the River Coata is to blame for…
Dhaka – An extensive study led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden has mapped the effects of small farmers on the rain forests of Southeast Asia for the first time. The findings are discouraging, with regard to environmental…
Dhaka – Three people were killed in an attack by wild elephants at Panbar village in Jhenaigati upazila of Sherpur on Thursday night, UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka – A farmer was trampled to death and two others injured in an attack by wild elephant at Bakura area in Jhinaigati upazila of Sherpur on Monday night, UNB news agency reported. The deceased was identified as Bachhiram Chambugong,…
The government will reply in seven days on the concern of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) over the planned Rampal power plant.”We will reply to the UNESCO stating our position over its concern on the Rampal…
Dhaka – A man of an indigenous community was killed in an attack by a herd of wild elephants at Chhoto Gazni in Jhinaigati upazila on Friday night.The deceased was identified as Laurens Kubi,55, son of Monohor Sangma, a resident…
Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain today said the government will take massive initiatives for enhancing the beauty of Ramna Park planting saplings of rare varieties of trees and developing modern facilities for visitors.”We have taken recommendations from…
New York – Today, as President Obama and Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina were inside the U.N. General Assembly meeting, Bangladeshi-American, environmental, and other groups rallied outside to protest the development of coal-fired power plants near the Sundarbans, a UNESCO…
African centre for Biodiversity (ACB) has today published a new report titled “Mapping farmer seed varieties in Manica, Mozambique: Report on initial investigations into agricultural biodiversity”. The report is the product of a research partnership between ACB, the national farmers’…
Motherless babies could be a real possibility in the near future, according to scientists who managed to create a litter of mice without fertilizing a female egg. The breakthrough could help infertile women have children. The old-fashioned way of making…
Dhaka – Robbers kidnapped 20 fishermen and looted valuables from their trawlers at Dhanshiddhir Char in Mongla upazila of Bagerhat district in the Sundarbans early Wednesday, UNB news agency reported. Those escaped the kidnapping said 10-12 robbers of ‘Jahangir Bahini’…
Lima (AP/UNB) – Four centuries ago the Count of San Isidro planted nearly 2,000 olive trees from his native Spain in a sprawling grove on the edges of Lima, the capital of colonial Peru. Perfectly suited to the arid climate,…
Aiming to focus public attention on the exquisite natural beauty of the country’s second largest wetland and the immense tourism potential it holds, the local administration is going to organise a two-day ‘Haor Festival’ at Tanguar Haor in Tahirpur upazila…
Dhaka -Robbers kidnapped eleven fishermen and looted valuables from their trawlers at Dhanshiddhir Char in Mongla upazila of Bagerhat in the Sundarbans early Friday, UNB news agency reported.
By Jessica Lawrence Around the world, concerned people are using “Keep it in the Ground” as a rallying cry to protect the Earth’s climate. This campaign calls on governments and corporations to stop mining and burning the fossil fuels that…
“Why don’t the authorities put themselves in our shoes?” asked Cándido Mezúa, an indigenous man from Panama, with respect to native peoples’ participation in conservation policies and the sharing of benefits from the protection of forests.Mezúa, who belongs to the…
A campaign has been launched seeking support support for the International Monsanto Tribunal which is scheduled for 14-16 October in The Haque. A statement has been floated as under for registering support to the initiative.
ASM Abdur Rab, president, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), Khalequzzaman Bhuiyan, general sewcretary, Bangladesher Samajtanrtrik Dal (BSD) and SM Akram, chief adviser, Nagoric Oikya on Saturday expressed their solidarity with the movement to protect the sunderbands by atopping the proposed coal-fired…
Kaptai National Park appears to be greatest wildlife abode despite its relatively smaller size with an integrated study suggesting it to be the home of 50 percent of the country’s total wildlife species.”Kaptai National Park in Rangamati appears to be…
In July 2015, the Mexican government granted a U.S. corporation permission for the use of genetic material obtained in Mexican territory for commercial and non-commercial purposes, in one of the cases that has fuelled concern in Latin America about the…
Dhaka – Detectives in a drive arrested six people along with a tiger skin foiling a bid to smuggle it out at Chakratala village in Koyra upazila of Khulna district on Wednesday night, UNB news agency reported.
Lower Lake: A wildfire destroyed at least 10 homes and forced some 4,000 of people to flee their homes in two Northern California towns Sunday as flames jumped a road and moved into populated areas. The fire reached Main Street…
The rescuers will take a few more days to shift the wild elephant, which was swept away by flood water and strayed for about 1,000 km from Assam of India to the northern region of Bangladesh over the last one…
A Caritas official has joined calls by environmental activists for the Bangladesh government to ban all industrial activity near the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest.Environmentalists have expressed alarm after leading Bengali daily Prothom Alo reported Aug. 9 that about…
African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), in partnership with Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima Tanzania (MVIWATA) and Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT), has shared a new report, “Farmer managed seed systems in Morogoro and Mvomero, Tanzania: The disregarded wealth of smallholder farmers”.…