After 5 August 2024, BNP and Jamaat activists were accused of encroaching about 4,000 acres of mangrove forest and creating more than 45 shrimp farms. At present, there are a total of 82 shrimp farms in 7,000 acres. Although High Court directions ordered removal of these illegal farms, they have not been implemented. According to […]
But instead of choosing that route, the Forest Department has chosen the easy way of cutting trees, which is not acceptable in any way. Due to indiscriminate cutting of trees, even birds have not found shelter there. In the context of the news published in Prothom Alo on the recent cutting of 2,044 trees in […]
Forests are not only key habitats for animal life, but also serve as important regulators of the global climate and carbon sponges, absorbing emissions released by human activity. However, deforestation last year was 20 percent higher than expected to meet leaders’ pledge, with 6.6 million hectares of forest destroyed, much of it primary forest in […]
This crime often affects remote, difficult-to-police nature reserves, which overlaps with other organized criminal activities ravaging the Amazon, including illegal logging and gold mining. Satellite images show how the lush forest of the Rio Preto-Jacunda reserve is surrounded by degraded brown land, which extends into the so-called protected area in several places in the southwestern […]
The European Union is planning to phase out palm oil-based fuel by 2030 due to its alleged link to deforestation. During their bilateral meeting, Anwar and Jokowi signed eight memorandums of understanding covering shipping, export-import financing, green energy, development of the battery industry, which they said they hoped would enhance cross-border trade and Investment will […]
Firoz Ahmed Khan and Noor Ahmed, two former union council presidents of St. Martin, told Prothom Alo that influential people first buy land and then employ people to burn or cut down the kea forest in the land they bought. Later, permanent infrastructures are built there for hotel-resort, restaurant or others. Although the law prohibits […]