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  Allocation for forestation, climate change adaptation rises

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 08:14pm on June 07, 2018

  The ministry of environment and forest would receive an increased budget allocation for the 2018-19 financial year, which is 42 per cent up from the...

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  Two more killed in ‘gunfights’

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:25am on June 07, 2018

  Two more suspected drug peddlers were killed in ‘gunfights’ in Chandpur and Mymensingh on Wednesday taking to 142 the number of people killed in the...

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  Scrap coal power project near Tengragiri reserve forest: TIB

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on May 08, 2018

  Transparency International Bangladesh has expressed grave concern over the project for construction of a 307MW coal-fired power plant, less than a kilometre off the Tengragiri...

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  Unchecked use of pesticide in reserve forest disconcerting

  | Updated at 12:05am on April 12, 2018

  INCREASED air and water pollution risks the biodiversity of the country....

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  Toxic pesticides threaten wildlife in Rema-Kalenga Reserve Forest

  Sadiqur Rahman . back from Habiganj | Updated at 12:50am on April 11, 2018

  Indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides on crop fields inside the Rema-Kalenga Reserve Forest in Habiganj, the most diversified wildlife habitat in Bangladesh, poses threat to...

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  Forest fire burns out 100 acres in Teknaf

  Our Correspondent . Cox’s Bazar | Updated at 01:10am on March 09, 2018

  A fire at Teknaf Reserved Forest had destroyed about 100 acres of area of Naytong Hill at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar along the border with...

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  Illegal timber trade must end to save forest resources

  | Updated at 12:05am on January 12, 2018

  EVERGREEN hilly forests being denuded of trees, especially in the past couple of months, as New Age reported on Thursday, and the pace of such...

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  Mismanagement gobbles up forests

  Sadiqur Rahman | Updated at 12:27am on January 10, 2018

  The country’s natural forest faced the highest deforestation between 2006 and 2014 since 1930, with the forest department failing to play its role, mainly due...