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  Bangladesh aims to double the number of tigers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 04:41pm on July 30, 2020

  Environment, forest and climate change minister Mohammad Shahab Uddin asked the Forest Department to take a project to double the number of tigers in Bangladesh....

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  Increased coal consumption will harm life and nature

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 28, 2020

  BANGLADESH is often criticised for not attending to the environment issues when it comes to taking big development projects. Environment issues appear to be brushed...

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  IUCN launches standard for nature-based solutions to global challenges

  Shahidul Islam Chowdhury | Updated at 06:46pm on July 23, 2020

  The International Union for Conservation of Nature on Thursday unveiled a global standard, providing the first-ever set of benchmarks for nature-based solutions to climate change,...

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  LG bodies asked to dump animal wastes properly

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:03am on July 21, 2020

  The local government and rural development ministry on Monday ordered the local government bodies — city corporations, municipalities and Upazila Parishads — to ensure proper...

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  Bangladesh toils to rescue turtle entangled in plastic

  Agence France-Presse. Cox's Bazar | Updated at 10:38am on July 13, 2020

  At least 20 turtles were dead and dozens more were rescued Sunday after being entangled in plastic waste washed ashore on one of the world's...

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  Green activists for stopping use of plastic bags

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:33am on July 04, 2020

  Green activists at a webinar on Friday said that the use of plastic bags was gradually decreasing but it should be stopped soon to save...

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  BELA gets Tang Prize

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 03:48pm on June 21, 2020

  Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association has been named for 2020 Tang Prize in Rule of Law. Tang Prize Foundation in Taiwan has also named two other...

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  Proposed budget undermines burning environmental concerns

  | Updated at 12:00am on June 16, 2020

  Amidst an unprecedented global pandemic, the finance minister on June 11 presented the 49th annual budget of Tk 5,68,000 crore, up by a slight 8.6...

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  Environment must be prioritised: experts

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:07am on June 04, 2020

  The upcoming budget should be the first in a series of new economic plans that the government may need to adopt in place of traditional...

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  BCB prepares for contactless training

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:14pm on June 02, 2020

  Bangladesh Cricket Board was chalking up plans for contactless training for the cricketers and was also preparing the training facilities to create a bio-safe environment...